Table 1.

Focus group participant characteristics

Characteristic	All patients	Patient focus group
		A1 †	A2	A3	B4	B5	C6	C7	D8	D9	E10	E11	E12
Location	5 sites	A	A	A	B	B	C	C	D	D	E	E	E
N	45	4	3	3	1	4	9	6	4	3	5	2	1
Age mean in years (SD), [range]	69.3 (8.7) [50-89]	69.3 (6.2) [64-76]	70.0 (17.1) [56-89]	66.7 (11.0) [58-79]	68	70.5 (4.4) [64-74]	69.3 (9.8) [58-78]	69.8 (11.1) [50-82]	72.0 (11.8) [64-89]	69.7 (5.1) [64-74]	69.6 (8.8) [62-83]	63.5 (0.7) [63-64]	66.0
Female, N (%)	3 (6.7)	0	0	1 (33.3)	0	0	1 (11.1)	1 (16.7)	0	0	0	0	0
Married, N (%)	29 (64.0)	3(75)	3 (100)	3 (100)	1 (100)	3 (75)	5 (55.6)	3 (50)	2 (50)	0 (0)	5 (100)	1 (50)	0
White race, N (%)	32 (71.1)	3 (75)	0	2 (66.7)	1 (100)	2 (50)	7 (77.8)	5 (83.3)	3 (75)	2 (66.7)	5 (100)	1 (50)	1 (100)
VA primary care visits, mean (SD) [range]	3.1 (2.3) [1-16]	3.3 (0.5) [3,4]	1.7 (0.6) [1,2]	3.7 (1.2) [3-5]	3	6.8 (6.2) [3-16]	1.7 (0.7) [1-3]	3.1 (1.7) [1-6]	2.2 (1.0) [1-3]	2.7 (0.6) [2,3]	4.0 (0.7) [3-5]	1.5 (0.7) [1,2]	5
Distance to VA in 2010 in miles, mean (SD), [range]	14.9 (12.0) [0*-43.5]	10.8 (6.8) [3.9-19.9]	12.0 (8.9) [2.7-20.5]	13.6 (2.0) [11.8-15.8]	6.9	16.0 (12.2) [3.9-29.9]	13.4 (11.2) [0*-29.0]	11.8 (9.2) [0*-22.9]	6.8 (3.7) [2.8-11.1]	12.8 (13.9) [3.9-28.8]	29.6 (19.2) [5.5-43.5]	18.1 (8.8) [11.8-24.3]	39.5
Free care in VA, N (%)	33 (73.3)	3 (75)	3 (100)	3 (100)	1 (100)	4 (100)	6 (66.7)	4 (66.7)	2 (50)	3 (100)	2 (40)	2 (100)	0
High school graduate, % of population in subject’s county (SD), [range]	84.0 (4.7)[76.9-90.3]	90.0 (0.6) [89.2-90.3]	89.9 (0.6) [89.2-90.3]	89.9 (0.6) [89.2-90.3]	76.9	78.7 (3.5) [76.9-83.9]	81.0 (3.2) [79.3-88.9]	80.5 (1.8) [79.3-82.8]	86.4 (1.7) [85.6-88.9]	87.8 (1.9) [85.6-88.9]	84.7 (0.8) [84.1-85.6]	82.3 (4.7) [78.9-85.6]	84.1

^†The letters indicate a particular site while the numbers provider a unique identifier for each focus group.

^*Subject has the same zip code as VA facility’s zip code.