Table 1.
Characteristics of an Academic General Internal Medicine Panel Including Patients with a Resident or Attending PCP and At Least One Practice Visit from May 1, 2014 to April 30, 2015
| Characteristic | Total N = 17,699 N (%) |
Attending N = 13,602 (76.9%) N (%) |
Resident N = 4097 (23.2%) N (%) |
p value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sociodemographics | ||||
| Age, mean (±SD) | 56.0 (± 17.1) | 56.1 (± 17.0) | 48.1 (± 17.4) | p < .01 |
| < 50 (%) | 40.6 | 36.4 | 54.8 | |
| 50–64 (%) | 28.4 | 29.5 | 24.5 | |
| 65–74 (%) | 17.6 | 19.0 | 12.9 | |
| 75+ (%) | 13.4 | 15.1 | 7.8 | |
| Patient female gender | 52.2 | 53.0 | 49.8 | p < .01 |
| Physician female gender | 54.8 | 53.9 | 57.5 | p < .01 |
| Gender concordance (patient and physician) | 66.0 | 66.3 | 64.8 | p = .07 |
| Ethnicity | ||||
| White, non-Latino | 47.2 | 49.9 | 38.5 | p < .01 |
| Asian/API | 23.6 | 23.6 | 23.5 | |
| Black, non-Latino | 8.8 | 7.9 | 12.0 | |
| Latino/Hispanic | 8.4 | 7.7 | 10.7 | |
| Other/unk/declined | 12.0 | 11.0 | 15.3 | |
| English as preferred language | 84.9 | 85.4 | 83.6 | p < .01 |
| Insurance status | ||||
| Commercial | 62.6 | 64.3 | 57.0 | p < .01 |
| Medicaid | 10.1 | 7.0 | 20.4 | |
| Medicare | 24.7 | 26.4 | 19.1 | |
| Medicare/Medicaid | 2.6 | 2.4 | 3.6 | |
| Mean no. visits per year (±SD) | 3.3 (± 3.1) | 3.3 (± 3.1) | 3.1 (± 3.1) | p < .01† |
| San Francisco zip code | 69.4 | 67.1 | 76.9 | p < .01 |
All presented percents are column percents
†K-W statistic used for comparison