Table 2.

Bivariate Associations Between Baseline Patient Characteristics and Physician-Patient Relationship Among Longitudinal Cohort of US Adults With Physician Office Visits in 2015 and 2016

Baseline Characteristic	Physician-Patient Relationship Score
	Survey-Weighted Population Mean (95% CI)	SMDa
Age group		0.14
<40 y	65.85 (64.63-67.07)
40-64 y	66.31 (65.47-67.15)
≥65 y	68.65 (67.77-69.53)
Sex		0.01
Male	66.95 (66.15-67.75)
Female	67.02 (66.31-67.73)
Race/Ethnicity		0.17
White, non-Hispanic	67.10 (66.43-67.77)
Black, non-Hispanic	68.39 (67.06-69.72)
Asian, non-Hispanic	66.62 (64.41-68.83)
Other, non-Hispanic	62.68 (58.37-65.99)
Hispanic	66.33 (64.78-67.88)
Education		0.02
<High school	67.08 (65.53-68.63)
High school graduate	67.24 (66.26-68.22)
>High school	66.88 (66.17-67.59)
US region		0.10
Northeast	68.06 (66.75-69.37)
Midwest	67.71 (66.59-68.83)
South	66.72 (65.86-67.58)
West	65.85 (64.56-67.14)
Multimorbidity		0.26
0-1 diagnosis	71.38 (69.13-73.63)
2-4 diagnoses	67.65 (66.67-68.63)
≥5 diagnoses	66.28 (65.61-66.95)
Insurance		0.33
Private	67.14 (66.49-67.79)
Public	67.31 (66.29-68.33)
Uninsured	60.59 (57.49-63.69)
Baseline functional healthb		0.52
Low	63.33 (62.45-64.21)
High	69.97 (69.31-70.64)

HC = MEPS Household Component; SF-12 = 12-Item Short-Form Survey; SMD = standardized mean difference.

Note: Population mean and 95% CI of physician-patient relationship score among adults ≥18 years with office visits in 2015 and 2016, reflective of 83 million patients in 2015.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, Longitudinal Panel (HC −193, 2015-2016) and Medical Conditions (HC −190, 2015).

^aSMD between the 2 extremes in each category. Difference in means or proportions divided by SD; imbalance defined as absolute value >0.2 (small effect size).

^bFunctional health captured with the SF-12 instrument, cut at the population median.