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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2011 Jul 20;86(3):322–328. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2011.06.005

Table 1.

Key demographic characteristics of study participants

Patient
N=385
Physician
N=35
Age Mean 74.4 49.4
S.D., min – max 6.6, 65 – 91 11.6, 32 – 82
<65 0 31
65 – 74 176 2
74 – 84 142 1
> 84 40 1
Gender Male 124 27
Female 242 8
Race White 299 29
African American 40 6
Other 27 0
Setting Academic Medical Center 125 10
Managed Care Group 209 21
Inner City Solo 32 4
Specialty Internal Medicine 229 22
Family Medicine 100 10
Other 37 3