Table 2.

Practice Characteristics (n = 42)

Characteristic	Practices*
Service area
Rural	26 (62)
Urban	16 (38)
Mean provider count (n)	8.4
Providers (n)
≤3	18 (43)
4–6	13 (31)
≥7	11 (26)
Practice specialty
Family medicine	31 (73)
Internal medicine	9 (21)
Mixed (internal/family medicine)	2 (5)
Practice type
Nonacademic	37 (74)
Academic	5 (12)
Insurance† (mean %)
Medicaid (n = 35)	(23)
Uninsured (n = 33)	(18)
Practice visits per day (n = 37), n (range)	73.6 (10–345)
Uses electronic health record system	22 (52)
Study practices with baseline clinical data that reached NCQA Diabetes Recognition Program performance thresholds
LDL levels‡ < 100 mg/dL	23 (37)
Systolic blood pressure	31 (36)
Hemoglobin A1C	17 (27)
Study practices that reached IPIP goals (n)
LDL levels‡ < 100 mg/dL	1
Systolic blood pressure	1
Hemoglobin A1C	4

Data are n (%) unless otherwise indicated.

^*Percentages listed may reflect rounding.

^†Insurance and practice visit data for several practices are missing.

^‡One practice did not have data for low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels.

NCQA, National Committee for Quality Assurance; IPIP, Improving Performance in Practice.