Table 2.
Descriptive statistics for cardiology and general medicine emergency department patients enrolled on GetWell Loop, comparing those activating their account to those not activating their account.
| Patient characteristics |
All patients or all conditions invited to use application | All patients or all conditions activating their account | Cardiology patients not activating their account | Cardiology patients activating their account |
P valuea |
General medicine patients not activating their account | General medicine patients activating their account |
P valuea |
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| Patients, n | 17,272 | 4337 | 1302 | 477 | —b | 1502 | 585 | — | |||||||||
| Age (years), mean (SD) | 45.1 (17.7) | 45.7 (17.4) | 49.5 (16.8) | 49.1 (15.9) | .64 | 49.85 (18.8) | 52.03 (18.2) | .02 | |||||||||
| Female, n (%) | 11658 (67.5) | 3145 (72.5) | 830 (63.7) | 330 (69.2) | .03 | 955 (63.6) | 404 (69.1) | .02 | |||||||||
| Race, n (%) | |||||||||||||||||
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Black or African American | 13430 (77.8) | 3131 (72.2) | 1039 (79.8) | 349 (73.2) | .004 | 1135 (75.6) | 390 (66.7) | <.001 | ||||||||
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White | 3031 (17.5) | 973 (22.4) | 196 (15.1) | 109 (22.9) | <.001 | 291 (19.4) | 154 (26.3) | <.001 | ||||||||
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Multiple | 267 (1.5) | 78 (1.8) | 21 (1.6) | 7 (1.5) | .99 | 26 (1.7) | 13 (2.2) | .47 | ||||||||
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Declined to answer or unknown | 250 (1.4) | 77 (1.8) | 17 (1.3) | 2 (0.4) | .12 | 28 (1.9) | 13 (2.2) | .60 | ||||||||
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Asian | 178 (1.0) | 51 (1.2) | 19 (1.5) | 9 (1.8) | .52 | 15 (1.0) | 11 (1.9) | .12 | ||||||||
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American Indian or Alaska Native | 64 (0.4) | 18 (0.4) | 5 (0.4) | 1 (0.2) | .99 | 2 (0.1) | 3 (0.5) | .14 | ||||||||
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Native Hawaiian, other Pacific Islander | 52 (0.3) | 9 (0.2) | 5 (0.4) | 0 (0) | .99 | 5 (0.3) | 1 (0.2) | .99 | ||||||||
| Payor, n (%) | |||||||||||||||||
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Commercial or other payor | 7538 (43.6) |
1927 (44.4) | 546 (41.9) | 249 (52.2) | <.001 | 465 (31.0) | 259 (44.3) | <.001 | ||||||||
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Medicaid payor | 6141 (35.6) | 1301 (30.0) | 377 (29.0) | 117 (24.5) | .07 | 500 (33.3) | 130 (22.2) | <.001 | ||||||||
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Medicare payor | 3593 (20.8) | 849 (19.6) | 311 (23.1) | 96 (20.1) | .10 | 444 (29.6) | 170 (29.1) | .82 | ||||||||
aP value calculated using the Welch 2-sample t test (age), chi-square test (sex), and Fisher exact test (payor, race).
bNot applicable.