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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2021 Feb 16;110(1):179–188. doi: 10.1002/cpt.2161

Table 1:

Characteristics of patient populations across 11 sites observed from 2011 to 2016

Number of sites 11

Academic Medical Centersa 9

Community Hospitals 2

Age in years
 25th percentile (Median [range])  39 [36.5, 40.8]
 50th percentile (Median [range])  54.3 [51.5, 55.8]
 75th percentile (Median [range])  65 [64.1, 66.8]

Female sex % (median [range]) 56.8 [51.7, 60.9]

Race
 White % (Median [range])  64.1 [27.8, 90.0]
 African American % (Median [range])  26.8 [6.2, 60.6]
 Asian % (Median [range])  1.2 [0.1,1.9]
 American Indian or
 Alaska Native % (Median [range])
 0.2 [0.1, 0.4]
 Pacific Islander % (Median [range])  0.1 [0.0, 0.2]
 Other/Unknown % (Median [range])  5.9 [1.8, 14.4]

Unique Patients with Encounters per Year
 Median [range]  248,533 [44,476, 3,200,408]
 Sum of Medians Across Sites  7,204,434

Unique Patients with Target Prescriptionsb per Year
 Median [range]  55,781 [5,036, 282,397]
 Sum of Medians Across Sites  844,307

Summary statistics were derived from site-level, across-year medians. For example, the median [range] of unique patients with encounters was derived by calculating site-specific median number of encounters per year across observed years and then by calculating the median [range] of the site-specific median values. For the 25th percentile of age summary, at each site, we calculated the 25th percentile of age each year and then used the median of those values. The median [range] reported in the table is the across-site median [range] of the site-specific median values for the 25th percentiles.

a

One participating site (Site 11) is considered an Academic Medical Center and a Community Hospital.

b

Target prescriptions defined as CPIC Level A drugs or alternative medications within the class.