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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Commun. 2016 May 6;32(1):119–125. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2015.1099502

Table 1.

Patient demographics when robotic surgery was available versus unavailable for appointments in which robotic prostatectomy was discussed.

Characteristic Robotic Surgery Total
(n = 118)		 p
Available
(n = 89)a 		Unavailable
(n = 29)
Age (M, SD) 62.8 (5.6) 61.7 (3.8) 62.5 (5.2) .361
Race (%) < .001
 White 93 56 82
 Black 7 42 33
 Native American 0 2 2
Education (%) .209
 High school or less 27 14 24
Tumor histology .741
 Gleason 6b 52 48 51
a

All demographic information is missing for one patient. Gleason score is missing from one additional patient.

b

All other patients had Gleason 7 tumor histology (by study design).

P-values compare whether each demographic characteristic differed across sites where robotic surgery was available versus unavailable. Age was compared using a one-way ANOVA; all other categories were compared using a Pearson Chi-Squared test. The chi-square test for race compared White vs. Non-White (which included Black and Native American).