Table 1.
Total | Intervention Group | Control Group | P-Value | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Patient characteristics, N (%) | N=9,795* | N=4487 | N=5308 | |
Patient-physician connectedness | 0.87 | |||
Physician-Connected | 5,763 | 2,644 (58.9) | 3,119 (58.8) | |
Practice-Connected | 4,032 | 1,843 (41.1) | 2,189 (41.2) | |
Timing of overdue status | 0.32 | |||
At study start (prevalent) | 6,697 | 3,045 (67.9) | 3,652 (68.8) | |
During first year (incident) | 3,098 | 1,442 (32.1) | 1,656 (31.2) | |
Age, mean (SD) | 54.1 (7.8) | 53.8 (7.7) | 54.3 (7.9) | 0.003 |
Ethnicity | <0.001 | |||
Non-Hispanic white | 7,359 | 3,546 (79.0) | 3,813 (71.8) | |
Hispanic | 840 | 190 (4.2) | 650 (12.3) | |
African American | 701 | 301 (6.7) | 400 (7.5) | |
Asian | 466 | 249 (5.6) | 217 (4.1) | |
Other/unknown | 429 | 201 (4.5) | 228 (4.3) | |
Primary language, English | 8,803 | 4,173 (93.0) | 4,630 (87.2) | <0.001 |
Insurance status | <0.001 | |||
Commercial health insurance | 6,344 | 3,163 (70.5) | 3181 (59.9) | |
Medicare | 1,261 | 531 (11.8) | 730 (13.8) | |
Medicaid | 1,178 | 454 (10.1) | 724 (13.6) | |
No insurance, self-pay | 1,012 | 339 (7.6) | 673 (12.7) | |
Months since last practice visit, median (IQR) | 9.8 (5.6-18.4) | 10.0 (5.7-18.7) | 9.5 (5.5-18.2) | 0.05 |
33 patients who died prior to the study start date were excluded.