TABLE 1—
Buprenorphine Nurse Care Manager Initiative Patient Demographic Characteristics at Intake: New York City, 2017–2020
| Characteristic | No. (%) |
| Total completed patient intake surveys | 993 (100) |
| Gender identitya,b | |
| Man | 733 (74) |
| Woman | 259 (26) |
| Race/ethnicitya,c | |
| Latinx or Hispanic | 407 (42) |
| White | 299 (31) |
| Black | 203 (21) |
| Multiracial or other | 51 (5) |
| Asian or Pacific Islander | 10 (1) |
| Age, ya | |
| 18–24 | 37 (4) |
| 25–34 | 202 (20) |
| 35–44 | 237 (24) |
| 45–54 | 264 (27) |
| 55–64 | 190 (19) |
| 65–84 | 56 (6) |
| Payment methoda,d | |
| Medicaid | 699 (72) |
| Commercial insurance | 93 (10) |
| Other | 90 (9) |
| Medicare | 62 (6) |
| Cash | 29 (3) |
| Housing statusa | |
| Own home | 405 (41) |
| Staying with friends or family | 277 (28) |
| Shelter | 168 (17) |
| Supportive housing | 64 (7) |
| Housing type unknown | 32 (3) |
| Reports being homeless | 17 (2) |
| Single room occupancy | 16 (2) |
Source. Nurse Care Manager Patient Baseline Surveys 2017–2020, extract date January 31, 2020.
One patient was missing data on gender identity, 23 patients had missing data on race/ethnicity, seven patients had missing data on age, 20 patients had missing data on payment method, and 14 patients had missing data on housing status.
Survey response options were “male” and “female” instead of “man” and “woman.” Responses were recoded to “man” and “woman” to be consistent with gender expression terminology. Women includes transgender and cisgender women.
Patients described the single race/ethnicity category they most identified with. Hispanic was a single race/ethnicity category on the intake survey. Since implementing the survey, the term “Latinx” has increasingly been recognized as a gender-neutral or nonbinary alternative to Latino or Latina. Therefore, to reflect this updated terminology, we use the term “Hispanic or Latinx.” Of note, patients also had the option to select “other” and fill in a corresponding free text response with their own description; when patients described “other,” we reviewed the provided description and recategorized into one of the single, predetermined race/ethnicity categories, multiracial, or other, as needed. Patients who described “other” as Middle Eastern and Trans-Caucasian were categorized as White.
Medicaid category includes some patients who reported both Medicaid and Medicare. Other includes patients who reported having workers’ compensation or being insured but did not specify if coverage was commercial or public.