Table 2.
Trial 1: comparing paper-referral and ePortal practice implementation, characteristics of 174 community-based practices
| E-referral (N = 87) | Paper-referral (N = 87) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | |
| Type | ||||
| Internal medicine | 36 | 41.4 | 44 | 51.2 |
| Family medicine | 50 | 57.5 | 39 | 45.3 |
| General practice | 1 | 1.1 | 3 | 3.5 |
| Number of physicians | ||||
| 1 | 59 | 68.6 | 54 | 62.8 |
| 2 | 15 | 17.4 | 23 | 26.7 |
| 3 or more | 12 | 14.0 | 9 | 10.5 |
| Region of country | ||||
| Northern East | 21 | 24.1 | 21 | 24.1 |
| South | 32 | 36.8 | 36 | 41.4 |
| Middle West | 16 | 18.4 | 19 | 21.8 |
| West | 18 | 20.7 | 11 | 12.6 |
| E-referral | Paper-referral | |||
| N | Median (IQR) | N | Median (IQR) | |
| Number of patient visits/week | 84 | 123 (100–188) | 87 | 120 (90–160) |
| Number of smokers/week | 87 | 40.0 (20–60) | 87 | 40.0 (20–50) |
| Number of computers | 84 | 5.1 (4–9) | 85 | 4.1 (3–7) |
Ns vary between 84 and 87 due to the small amount of missing baseline data for some variables. All characteristics are not significantly different (p > 0.05), comparing e-referral and paper-referral practices