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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 22.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2010 Nov;164(11):1052–1058. doi: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2010.201

Table 1.

Patient Characteristicsa

All Children Diagnosed with ≥ 1 Chronic Diseased
No Yes

N=36,944 N=28,023 N=8,921
WCC Visit Adherenceb
 0–25% 2,854 (8) 2,271 (8) 583 (7)
 26–50% 2,200 (6) 1,578 (6) 622 (7)
 51–74% 4,849 (13) 3,413 (12) 1,436 (16)
 75–100% 27,041 (73) 20,761 (74) 6,280 (70)

COC Indexb
 0–0.25 925 (3) 627 (2) 298 (3)
 0.26–0.50 6,291 (17) 4,271 (15) 2,020 (23)
 0.51–0.74 8,284 (22) 5,960 (22) 2,324 (26)
 0.75–1.0 21,444 (58) 17,165 (61) 4,279 (48)

Geographic Location
 Oahu 25,856 (70) 19,740 (70) 6,116 (69)

 Non-Oahu 11,088 (30) 8,283 (30) 2,805 (31)

Gender
 Female 17,726 (48) 13,823 (49) 3,903 (44)
 Male 19,218 (52) 14,200 (51) 5,018 (56)

Enrollment, monthsc
 Time in study 31 [14–42] 28 [12–42] 41 [23–42]

 Age at start 0 [0–0] 0 [0–0] 0 [0–0]

ACSH 1,396 (4) 751 (3) 645 (7)

Abbreviations: ACSH, Ambulatory Care Sensitive Hospitalizations, WCC, Well-Child Care, COC, Continuity of Care

a

No. (%) of eligible children

b

WCC visit adherence and COC index for this table are based on values at exit from analysis

c

Median [Interquartile Range]

d

P<0.001 for all comparisons between children with ≥ one chronic disease and healthy children except for “age at start of enrollment” (P>0.05)