Table 1.
Descriptive Characteristics of Patients in the Sample (N = 3183)
| Measure | Number | Percent |
| Patient group | ||
| Anxiety or depression | 729 | 22.89 |
| Heart failure | 513 | 16.13 |
| Hypertension | 1000 | 31.42 |
| Severe mental illness or posttraumatic stress disorder | 941 | 29.56 |
| Age | ||
| Less than 55 | 153 | 4.8 |
| 55 to 64 | 590 | 18.5 |
| 65 to 74 | 1700 | 53.4 |
| 75 or more | 589 | 18.5 |
| Not reported | 151 | 4.7 |
| Gender | ||
| Male | 2900 | 91.1 |
| Female | 136 | 4.3 |
| Unknown | 147 | 4.6 |
| Race | ||
| White/Caucasian | 2260 | 71 |
| Black/African American | 573 | 18 |
| Other | 140 | 4.4 |
| Not reported | 210 | 6.6 |
| Ethnicity | ||
| Hispanic | 208 | 6.5 |
| Non-Hispanic | 2726 | 85.6 |
| Missing | 249 | 7.8 |
| Relationship status | ||
| Married/living together | 2133 | 67.0 |
| Not married | 970 | 30.5 |
| Not reported | 80 | 2.5 |
| Hemoglobin A1c levels < 7 | 1883 | 53.2 |
| Measure | Mean | SD |
| VA service visits 12 months | 15.78 | 13.75 |
| Elixhauser condition count | 2.33 | 1.69 |
| Select specialty care visits per total visits | .42 | .24 |