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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 9.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Manag Care. 2012 Dec;18(12):821–829.

Table 1.

Patient Characteristics by Intervention Group Status at Baseline

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.