Table 1. Sociodemographic Features Associated With Presence or Absence of Financial Notes for 46 244 Patients.
| Feature | Financial Note (n = 6058) | No Financial Note (n = 40 186) | Test Statistica | P Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participants, No. (%) | Reference, No. (%) | Participants, No. (%) | Reference, No. (%) | |||
| Age, mean (SD), y | 54.1 (16.4) | 49.9 (17.5) | 19.9 | <.001 | ||
| Zip code median income, mean (SD), $10 000 | 7.07 (2.8) | 7.68 (3.0) | −16.6 | <.001 | ||
| Female | 4170 (13.7) | 1888 (12.0) | 26 386 (86.4) | 13 800 (88.0) | 23.5 | <.001 |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||
| White | 3227 (11.6) | 2831 (15.4) | 24 642 (88.4) | 15 544 (84.6) | 142.2 | <.001 |
| Hispanic | 1223 (15.7) | 4835 (12.6) | 6553 (84.3) | 33 633 (87.4) | 56.4 | <.001 |
| Black | 975 (18.1) | 5083 (12.4) | 4417 (81.9) | 35 769 (87.6) | 132.6 | <.001 |
| Other | 511 (13.8) | 5547 (13.0) | 3192 (86.2) | 36 994 (87.0) | 1.7 | .20 |
| Asian | 122 (8.1) | 5936 (13.3) | 1382 (91.9) | 38 804 (86.7) | 33.5 | <.001 |
| Marital status | ||||||
| Married | 2654 (11.0) | 3404 (15.4) | 21 508 (89.0) | 18 678 (84.6) | 198.6 | <.001 |
| Single | 1982 (13.9) | 4076 (12.8) | 12 289 (86.1) | 27 897 (87.3) | 11.2 | <.001 |
| Divorced | 570 (19.0) | 5488 (12.7) | 2435 (81.0) | 37 751 (87.3) | 96.7 | <.001 |
| Widowed | 526 (19.1) | 5532 (12.7) | 2231 (80.9) | 37 955 (87.3) | 91.5 | <.001 |
| Other or unknown | 326 (15.9) | 5732 (13.0) | 1723 (84.1) | 38 463 (87.0) | 14.6 | <.001 |
| Insurance type | ||||||
| Private | 2716 (10.5) | 3342 (16.4) | 23 170 (89.5) | 17 016 (83.6) | 350.8 | <.001 |
| Public, other | 1729 (19.5) | 4329 (11.6) | 7132 (80.5) | 33 054 (88.4) | 395.2 | <.001 |
| Other or unknown | 710 (11.8) | 5348 (13.3) | 5323 (88.2) | 34 863 (86.7) | 10.7 | .001 |
| Public, Medicare | 643 (18.2) | 5415 (12.7) | 2886 (81.8) | 37 300 (87.3) | 87.5 | <.001 |
| Public, Medicaid | 260 (13.4) | 5798 (13.1) | 1675 (86.6) | 38 511 (86.9) | 0.2 | .68 |
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Statistics are t value for continuous variables and χ2 for categorical variables.