Table 1.
Description of visit-level patient characteristics pre- and post-protocol implementation
| Tobacco Use n=4601 visits |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-protocol visits n=4078/47,067 n (%) |
Post-protocol visits n=523/7023 n (%) |
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| Age (mean, SD) | 50.4 (± 12.9) | 51.0 (± 13.2) | <0.01 | |
| Gender | Female | 2681 (65.7) | 356 (68.1) | 0.3 |
| Race | White | 3499 (86.3) | 442 (85.3) | 0.8 |
| Black | 332 (8.2) | 44 (8.5) | ||
| Other | 225 (5.6) | 32 (6.2) | ||
| Language | English | 4025 (98.7) | 517 (98.9) | 0.8 |
| Non-English | 53 (1.3) | 6 (1.2) | ||
| Marital Status | Married/Partnered | 1858 (45.9) | 224 (43.4) | 0.5 |
| Single | 1454 (35.9) | 197 (38.2) | ||
| Separated/divorced | 735 (18.2) | 95 (18.4) | ||
| Medicaid (Ever) | 1231 (30.2) | 150 (28.7) | 0.5 | |
| BMI Quartile | Lowest (mean, SD) | 29.2 (± 7.3) | 29.1 (± 7.4) | 0.3 |
| Underweight-Normal | 1214 (30.5) | 146 (28.5) | 0.5 | |
| Overweight | 1575 (39.6) | 201 (39.3) | ||
| Obese | 1189 (29.9) | 165 (32.2) | ||
| Rheumatoid Arthritis | 1273 (31.2) | 174 (33.3) | 0.3 | |
| Spondyloarthropathy | 568 (13.9) | 81 (15.5) | 0.3 | |
| Connective Tissue Disease | 632 (15.5) | 83 (15.9) | 0.8 | |
| Other (not RA, SpA, CTDz) | 1772 (43.5) | 211 (40.3) | 0.2 | |
| Baseline Hypertension* | 1804 (44.2) | 220 (42.1) | 0.4 | |
| Cardiovascular disease | 714 (17.5) | 89 (17.0) | 0.8 | |
| Diabetes mellitus | 472 (11.6) | 62 (11.9) | 0.9 | |
| Chronic kidney/ESRD | 92 (2.3) | 12 (2.3) | 1.0 | |
| ACG Comorbidity Score (mean, SD) | 1.0 (± 0.7) | 1.0 (± 0.6) | ||
| Mean Annual Ambulatory visits (mean, SD) | 6.8 (± 6.0) | 6.30 (± 5.8) | ||
| Mean Annual PC visits (mean, SD) | 2.2 (± 3.1) | 2.1 (± 3.2) | ||
| Mean Annual Rheum visits (mean, SD) | 2.0 (± 2.0) | 1.8 (± 1.8) | 1.0 | |
| In Network PC | 2183 (53.5) | 279 (53.4) | 0.9 | |
*
Prior hypertension diagnosis per algorithm and/or antihypertensive medication.
Primary care follow-up analysis required an in-network PC. Abbreviations: ACG= Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Groups System; BMI=body mass index; BP=blood pressure; CTDz=connective tissue disease; PC=primary care; RA=rheumatoid arthritis; SpA=spondyloarthropathy.