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. 2020 Jul;110(Suppl 2):S215–S218. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305689

TABLE 1—

Characteristics of Intervention and Matched Comparison Groups for Study Participants: New York City, 2015–2016

Before Propensity Score Matching
After Propensity Score Matching Comparison Group (Enrollment n = 754), Mean or % (No.)
Matching Variable Intervention Group (Enrollment n = 506), Mean or % (No.) Comparison Group (Enrollment n = 50 487), Mean or % (No.) Standardized Difference
Age, y 28.91 29.11 0.035 29.03
Language
 English 70.4 (356) 63.9 (32 283) 0.137 70.6 (714)
 Spanish 29.1 (147) 25.2 (12 742) 0.086 28.7 (290)
 Other 0.6 (3) 10.8 (5 462) 0.452 0.4 (4)
Clinical high risk
 Diabetes 10.47 (53) 12.69 (6 408) 0.069 11.17 (113)
 Hypertension 12.65 (64) 6.59 (3 328) 0.206 11.26 (114)
 Mental illness 2.96 (15) 2.7 (1 365) 0.016 2.57 (26)
Predelivery enrollment days 356.66 351.66 9 345.14

Note. UHF = United Hospital Fund. UHF zip code results not shown; matching based on UHF neighborhood codes was successful (standardized difference < 0.2).