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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2021 Apr 6;277:113901. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113901

Table 1:

Patient Characteristics

Full Sample By Patient Race/Ethnicity
Patient Demographic, SES, and Health Characteristics All Races White Black Asian Hispanic
N 1843 1064 654 60 65
% 100.0 57.7 35.5 3.3 3.5
Foreign-Born (%) 8.5 28.9 18.6 36.5 16.0
Female (%) 54.8 52.3 60.7 40.0 50.8
Age (%)
18-28 2.8 2.0 4.1 0.0 6.2
29-39 4.8 3.9 5.5 8.3 10.8
40-49 9.7 8.4 11.5 15.0 7.7
50-59 20.2 17.9 23.7 10.0 32.3
60+ 62.5 68.0 55.2 66.7 43.1
Employment Status (%)
Employed 30.6 34.7 22.9 35.0 36.9
Unemployed 4.3 1.9 8.1 5.0 4.6
Retired 41.7 45.5 37.0 41.7 27.7
Out of labor force 16.1 10.4 25.1 10.0 23.1
Unknown 7.3 7.5 6.9 8.3 7.7
Neighborhood SES (%)
Low 41.4 42.1 83.3 28.3 66.2
Mid/High 57.1 56.2 15.3 71.7 33.9
Missing 1.5 1.7 1.4 0.0 0.0
Health Insurance Type (%)
Private 28.6 34.9 17.6 38.3 27.7
Medicaid 14.1 4.5 29.1 10.0 23.1
Medicare 55.9 59.9 51.1 48.3 46.2
None 1.5 0.8 2.3 3.3 3.1
Marital Status (%)
Single 29.8 19.2 50.8 16.7 29.3
Married 51.0 63.2 29.4 71.7 49.2
Widowed 9.4 8.4 11.3 6.7 9.2
Divorced 8.0 8.3 8.1 0.0 10.8
Separated 1.8 1.0 0.5 5.0 1.5
Smoking status (%)
Never smoker 46.1 47.2 40.4 71.7 60.0
Former smoker 39.8 43.6 36.2 25.0 27.7
Current smoker 14.2 9.2 23.4 3.3 12.3
Comorbidities (%)
Any 91.3 90.8 92.8 81.7 92.3
None 8.7 9.2 7.2 18.3 7.7
Context of Initial CT (%)
Outpatient 60.7 72.1 43.0 61.7 50.8
Inpatient 17.4 16.4 18.7 18.3 20.0
Emergency 21.9 11.6 38.4 20.0 29.2
Nodule (Risk for Malignancy) (%)
Low 67.1 65.6 69.7 63.3 70.8
Intermediate 19.9 21.8 15.9 30.0 18.4
High 13.0 12.6 14.4 6.7 10.8