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. 2018 Sep 5;33(12):2085–2091. doi: 10.1007/s11606-018-4637-x

Table 3.

Multivariate Odds of Any Use and Active Use of the Patient-Portal at an Academic General Internal Medicine Practice Clustered by Physician (May 1, 2014–April 30, 2015)

Odds of use
N = 17,699
Odds of active use
N = 9443
Adjusted OR (95% CI) Adjusted OR (95% CI)
Physician type
 Attending (Ref) 1.0 1.0
 Resident 0.55 (0.51, 0.59) 0.74 (0.65, 0.84)
Age
 < 50 0.75 (0.69, 0.81) 0.77 (0.69, 0.86)
 50–64 (Ref) 1.0 1.0 (ref)
 65–74 1.26 (1.12, 1.40) 1.33 (1.12, 1.58)
 75+ 0.65 (0.57, 0.74) 0.96 (0.77, 1.19)
Patient gender
 Male (Ref) 1.0 1.0
 Female 1.16 (1.09, 1.24) 1.10 (1.00, 1.22)
Ethnicity
 White, non-Latino (Ref) 1.0 1.0
 Asian/API 0.83 (0.76, 0.90) 0.68 (0.60, 0.77)
 Black, non-Latino 0.32 (0.28, 0.36) 0.72 (0.58, 0.90)
 Latino/Hispanic 0.52 (0.46, 0.59) 0.84 (0.79, 1.03)
 Other race/ethnicity 0.65 (0.59, 0.72) 0.90 (0.77, 1.06)
Primary language
 English (Ref) 1.0 1.0
 Non-English/unk/declined 0.45 (0.40, 0.50) 0.51 (0.43, 0.61)
Insurance status
 Commercial (Ref) 1.0 1.0
 Medicaid 0.45 (0.40, 0.51) 0.86 (.70, 1.06)
 Medicare 0.52 (0.47, 0.58) 0.91 (.77, 1.08)
 Medicare/Medicaid 0.33 (0.26, 0.41) 0.88 (.58, 1.34)
Clinic visits 1.10 (1.08, 1.11) 1.17 (1.14, 1.20)
Patient zip code
 San Francisco zip code (Ref) 1.0 1.0
 Non-San Francisco zip code 1.20 (1.12, 1.29) 1.09 (0.98, 1.20)