Table 2.

Association Between Patient Portal Use and Broadband Access

	Bivariate analysis		Multivariate analysis
	OR	p value	OR	p value
Broadband access (ref: high (> 800 connections)
Low (0–400 connections)	0.63	< 0.001	0.88	< 0.001
Moderate (400–800 connections)	0.83	< 0.001	0.97	0.20
Region (ref: metropolitan)
Micropolitan	0.64	< 0.001	0.74	< 0.001
Small town	0.61	< 0.001	0.73	< 0.001
Rural	0.59	< 0.001	0.70	< 0.001
Median household income*	1.23	< 0.001	1.12	< 0.001
% population > 65 years*	0.93	< 0.001	0.94	< 0.001
% population with less than a high school diploma*	0.87	< 0.001	0.94	< 0.001
% White*	1.01	< 0.311	0.99	0.370
% Hispanic*	0.94	< 0.001	0.97	0.001
% Male*	1.03	< 0.001	1.03	< 0.006

*Standardized variable created by subtracting by the mean dividing by the standard deviation