Table 1.
Demographics across self-reported note reading
| Demographics | Number of Visit Notes Read in Past 12 Months |
Overall | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Never/> 12 months ago | 1-3 Notes in past 12 months | 4+ Notes in past 12 months | |||
| Overall | 270(4.3) | 2641(41.8) | 3405(53.9) | – | |
| Age (mean, s) | 56(16) | 55(15) | 58(14) | 57(15) | <.001 |
| Race/Ethnicity | |||||
| Asian | 12(4.4) | 130(4.9) | 132(3.9) | 274(4.3) | <.001 |
| Black | 11(4.1) | 100(3.8) | 113(3.3) | 224(3.5) | |
| Hispanic/Latino | 12(4.4) | 35(1.3) | 54(1.6) | 101(1.6) | |
| White | 212(78.5) | 2164(81.9) | 2864(84.1) | 5240(83) | |
| Other | 15(5.6) | 110(4.2) | 158(4.6) | 283(4.5) | |
| Unknown | 8(3) | 102(3.9) | 84(2.5) | 194(3.1) | |
| Self-reported health | |||||
| Excellent or very good | 141(54.9) | 1628(63) | 1660(49.6) | 3429(55.4) | <.001 |
| Good, fair, or poor | 116(45.1) | 956(37) | 1686(50.4) | 2758(44.6) | |
| Education | |||||
| HS grad or less | 47(18.4) | 330(12.8) | 621(18.6) | 998(16.2) | <.001 |
| Associate’s or bachelor’s | 95(37) | 923(35.8) | 1136(34.1) | 2154(34.9) | |
| Master’s or doctoral | 115(44.7) | 1323(51.4) | 1575(47.3) | 3031(48.9) | |
| Confidence with medical forms in English | |||||
| Somewhat or less | 15(5.8) | 102(3.9) | 131(3.9) | 248(4) | .312 |
| Quite or extremely | 242(94.2) | 2481(96.1) | 3215(96.1) | 5938(96) | |
| Ambulatory visits in past 12 months (median, q1 - q3) | 3(1-5) | 3(2-5) | 7(3-12) | 4(2-9) | <.001* |
Note: Some patients missing data for demographic variables.
*
Mann-Whitney U Test.