Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of preventive care visits before 2007 (2005-2006)
Child visits | Young adult visits | |||||||
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Unweighted a (N = 916) | Weighted b (N = 36,247,982) | Unweighted (N = 331) | Weighted (N = 10,693,301) | |||||
Characteristic | Visits (N) | Proportion of visits (%) | Visits (N) | Proportion of visits (%, (95% CI c)) | Visits (N) | Proportion of visits (%) | Visits (N) | Proportion of visits (%, (95% CI)) |
Urinalysis | 180 | 19.7 | 7,347,141 | 20.3 (15.0, 26.8) | 63 | 19.0 | 2,158,310 | 20.2 (14.6, 27.2) |
Patient gender | ||||||||
Male | 473 | 51.64 | 19,231,738 | 53.1 (47.9, 58.2) | 85 | 25.7 | 3,087,855 | 28.9 (21.8, 37.1) |
Female | 443 | 48.36 | 17,016,244 | 46.9 (41.9, 52.1) | 246 | 74.3 | 7,605,446 | 71.1 (62.9, 78.2) |
Patient race/ethnicity | ||||||||
White | 694 | 75.8 | 30,532,293 | 84.2 (78.7, 88.6) | 240 | 72.5 | 8,441,612 | 78.9 (70.1, 85.7) |
Black | 119 | 13.0 | 3,068,705 | 8.5 (5.4, 13.0) | 47 | 14.2 | 1,397,124 | 13.1 (8.3, 20.0) |
Other | 103 | 11.2 | 2,646,984 | 7.3 (4.9, 10.7) | 44 | 13.3 | 854,565 | 8.0 (4.0, 15.3) |
Physician specialty | ||||||||
Pediatrician | 660 | 72.1 | 27,449,990 | 75.7 (69.3, 81.2) | 14 | 4.2 | 679,551 | 6.4 (2.7, 14.1) |
Family practitioner | 256 | 28.0 | 8,797,992 | 24.3 (18.8, 30.7) | 317 | 95.8 | 10,013,750 | 93.7 (85.9, 97.3) |
Visit setting | ||||||||
Private practice | 686 | 74.9 | 34,641,012 | 95.6 (91.8, 97.7) | 231 | 69.8 | 10,406,117 | 97.3 (94.8, 98.6) |
CHC | 230 | 25.1 | 1,606,970 | 4.4 (2.4, 8.2) | 100 | 30.2 | 287,184 | 2.7 (1.4, 5.2) |
aUnweighted estimates reflect the absolute number of visits in the study sample.
bWeighted estimates are sample visits weighted using NAMCS patient visit frequencies to develop national estimates.
cCI = Confidence Interval.