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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 30.
Published in final edited form as: Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2011 Jul 19;145(4):572–580. doi: 10.1177/0194599811416063

Table 1.

Site and patient characteristics

[Patient Reported] What is the main concern today?
Evaluation/treatment of:
Both Tinnitus
and Dizziness
Tinnitus Dizziness No
Response
Grand
Total
Patients enrolled, no. 443 427 527 135 1532
CHEER sites enrolling, no. 16 16 15 11 16
CHEER sites enrolling (no. enrolling/no. of active trained sites or 22 sites), % 73 73 68 50 73
States represented, no. 13 13 12 11 13
Average patients enrolled per site, no. 27.7 26.7 35.1 12.3 95.8
Min. patients per site, no. 1 1 2 1 1
Max. patients per site, no. 80 87 100 31 264
Median patients per site, no. 17 14.5 26 4 64.5
Demographics—characteristics (patient reported)
Main concern for visit (respondents), % 29 28 34 9 100
Female, % 60 51 71 58 61
Average age, yrs 54.6 54.3 53.9 55.8 54.6
Race/Ethnicity, %
  Caucasian 86 86 84 76 84
  African American 6 6 7 4 7
  Asian 2 3 4 4 3
  American Indian or Alaskan Native 1 4 1 0 1
  Other 4 4 2 4 3
  Hispanic 6 5 4 75 5
Married, % 64 65 65 66 65
Living with spouse or partner, % 70 70 69 70 69
Employed full-time, % 46 56 45 47 49
On disability, % 10 5 8 4 8
Prior neck injury, % 8.8 2.3 4.0 4.2 4.9
Prior brain injury, % 6.3 1.6 2.9 4.2 3.6
Prior motor vehicle accident, % 9.7 1.9 4.6 5.0 5.4
Current treatment, %
  Dialysis 0.9 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.3
  Chemotherapy 1.8 0.7 1.0 0.8 1.2
  Alternative or herbal medications 5.9 3.3 4.6 0.8 4.2