Table 1.
Demographic comparisons of the patients who initiated messages and had provider responses from 2013 to 2018 by provider type (primary care or specialty).
| Demographic | Primary care response messages | Specialty response messages | |||||||||||
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First 6 months (2013; n=14,151), n (%) | Last 6 months (2017-2018; n=53,931), n (%) | P valuea | First 6 months (2013; n=20,109), n (%) | Last 6 months (2017-2018; n=115,725), n (%) | P valuea | |||||||
| Age group (years) | |||||||||||||
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0-17 | 443 (3.1) | 4094 (7.6) | <.001 | 926 (4.6) | 8095 (7.0) | <.001 | ||||||
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18-34 | 2951 (20.9) | 9380 (17.4) | <.001 | 4555 (22.7) | 16,730 (14.5) | <.001 | ||||||
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35-49 | 3769 (26.6) | 13,796 (25.6) | .01 | 5473 (27.2) | 23,542 (20.3) | <.001 | ||||||
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50-64 | 4903 (34.6) | 15,861 (29.4) | <.001 | 6191 (30.8) | 35,721 (30.9) | .82 | ||||||
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65-79 | 1801 (12.7) | 8772 (16.3) | <.001 | 2592 (12.9) | 27,220 (23.5) | <.001 | ||||||
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≥80 | 278 (2.0) | 2023 (3.8) | <.001 | 360 (1.8) | 4390 (3.8) | <.001 | ||||||
| Sex | |||||||||||||
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Female | 9970 (70.5) | 34,011 (63.1) | <.001 | 13,670 (68.0) | 65,798 (56.9) | <.001 | ||||||
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Male | 4175 (29.5) | 19,915 (36.9) | <.001 | 6427 (32.0) | 49,898 (43.1) | <.001 | ||||||
| Race | |||||||||||||
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White | 13,182 (93.2) | 49,424 (91.6) | <.001 | 18,574 (92.4) | 105,646 (91.3) | <.001 | ||||||
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Asian | 390 (2.8) | 1655 (3.1) | .05 | 535 (2.7) | 2614 (2.3) | <.001 | ||||||
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Black | 151 (1.1) | 709 (1.3) | .02 | 207 (1.0) | 1449 (1.3) | .008 | ||||||
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Other | 428 (3.0) | 2143 (4.0) | <.001 | 793 (3.9) | 6016 (5.2) | <.001 | ||||||
| Ethnicity | |||||||||||||
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Hispanic or Latino | 199 (1.4) | 975 (1.8) | .001 | 308 (1.5) | 2255 (1.9) | <.001 | ||||||
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Not Hispanic or Latino | 13,641 (96.4) | 51,382 (95.3) | <.001 | 19,102 (95.0) | 108,097 (93.4) | <.001 | ||||||
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Unknown/not disclosed | 311 (2.2) | 1574 (2.9) | <.001 | 699 (3.5) | 5373 (4.6) | <.001 | ||||||
| Highest level of education | |||||||||||||
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Some postcollege graduate studies | 2251 (15.9) | 11,448 (21.2) | <.001 | 3526 (17.5) | 28,092 (24.3) | <.001 | ||||||
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4-year college graduate | 3752 (26.5) | 9208 (17.1) | <.001 | 5183 (25.8) | 21,866 (18.9) | <.001 | ||||||
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Some college or 2-year degree | 2918 (20.6) | 19,690 (36.5) | <.001 | 4155 (20.7) | 37,619 (32.5) | <.001 | ||||||
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High school graduate | 1454 (10.3) | 6003 (11.1) | .004 | 2127 (10.6) | 14,559 (12.6) | <.001 | ||||||
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Some high school (did not graduate) | 234 (1.7) | 1210 (2.2) | <.001 | 358 (1.8) | 992 (0.9) | <.001 | ||||||
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Eighth grade or less | 16 (0.1) | 164 (0.3) | <.001 | 36 (0.2) | 505 (0.4) | <.001 | ||||||
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Unknown | 3526 (24.9) | 6208 (11.5) | <.001 | 4724 (23.5) | 12,092 (10.4) | <.001 | ||||||
| Patient’s home address | |||||||||||||
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Minnesota | 13,059 (92.3) | 52,663 (97.6) | <.001 | 14,196 (70.6) | 68,538 (59.2) | <.001 | ||||||
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Contiguous state | 357 (2.5) | 651 (1.2) | <.001 | 2053 (10.2) | 20,585 (17.8) | <.001 | ||||||
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Other (other US states and international) | 735 (5.2) | 617 (1.1) | <.001 | 3860 (19.2) | 26,602 (23.0) | <.001 | ||||||
aNull hypothesis (H0): within primary care or specialty, first 6 months demographic proportion=last 6 months demographic proportion.