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. 2022 Jan;112(1):135–143. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306498

TABLE 1—

Patient-Level Demographics of the Study Sample Attending Well Visits and Clinical Sites: Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 2015–2019

Characteristic Never Screened in Preventative Visit Year (n = 31 750; 84.0%), No. (%) or Median (IQR) Ever Screened in Preventative Visit Year (n = 6067; 16.0%), No. (%) or Median (IQR) Total n = 37 817, No. (%) or Median (IQR)
Patient characteristics
Race
 Black 6 895 (21.7) 4 012 (66.2) 10 907 (28.8)
 White 19 949 (62.9) 1 457 (24.0) 21 406 (56.6)
 Other 4 881 (15.4) 593 (9.8) 5 474 (14.5)
 Missing 25 (0.1) 5 (0.1) 30 (0.1)
Ethnicity
 Non-Latinx/missing 29 924 (94.2) 5 741 (94.6) 35 665 (94.3)
 Latinx 1 826 (5.8) 326 (5.4) 2 152 (5.7)
Age at well visit, y 15 (15–16) 16 (15–17) 15 (15–16)
No. of well visits in study period 2 (1–2) 2 (1–3) 2 (1–2)
Insurance type
 Uninsured/missing 2 726 (8.6) 700 (11.5) 3 426 (9.1)
 Public 6 817 (21.5) 2 952 (48.7) 9 769 (25.8)
 Private 22 207 (69.9) 2 415 (39.8) 24 622 (65.1)
Clinic characteristics
Clinic setting
 Urban Title X 2 419 (7.6) 2 914 (48.0) 5 333 (14.1)
 Urban non-Title X 4 108 (12.9) 1 562 (25.8) 5 670 (15.0)
 Suburban 25 223 (79.4) 1 591 (26.2) 26 814 (70.9)
Mean no. of clinicians by clinica
 1–9 7 481 (23.6) 392 (6.5) 7 873 (20.8)
 10–19 21 154 (66.6) 1 948 (32.1) 23 102 (61.1)
 ≥ 20 3 115 (9.8) 3 727 (61.4) 6 842 (18.1)
Proportion of privately insured patients by clinicb
 < 49% 3 499 (11.2) 3 744 (61.7) 7 243 (19.2)
 ≥ median, ≥ 50% 28 251 (89.0) 2 323 (38.3) 30 574 (80.8)
Proportion of clinic patients who are adolescentsc
 < median < 33% 13 237 (41.7) 4 683 (77.2) 17 920 (47.4)
 ≥ median ≥ 34% 18 513 (58.3) 1 384 (22.8) 19 897 (52.6)

Note. IQR = interquartile range. The sample comprised females aged 15–19 years. The sample size was n = 37 817.

a

Number of unique clinicians in clinics over the study period.

b

Proportion of patients in each clinic (entire clinic, not just sample) that were privately insured.

c

Proportion of patients in each clinic (entire clinic, not just sample) that were adolescents aged 13–18 years.