Table 1.
Characteristics of patients undergoing major surgery cared for by single-specialty surgical practices that add an advanced practice provider for the first time.
| Characteristic | Procedure | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CABG | Colectomy | Major Joint | Cystectomy | |||||||||
| Pre year N=203 | Post year N=204 | p-value | Pre year N=449 | Post year N=490 | p-value | Pre year N=2309 | Post year N=2526 | p-value | Pre year N=48 | Post year N=53 | p-value | |
| Age, mean (SD) | 74.7 (6.0) | 75.5 (5.7) | 0.18 | 76.7 (7.3) | 76.3 (7.1) | 0.46 | 74.5 (6.1) | 74.1 (6.1) | 0.04 | 75 (6.5) | 75.6 (6.3) | 0.62 |
| Race, n (%) | 0.83 | 0.02 | <0.01 | 0.76 | ||||||||
| White | 190 (93.6) | 192 (94.1) | 426 (94.9) | 445 (90.8) | 2187 (94.7) | 2341 (92.7) | * | * | ||||
| Non-white | 13 (6.4) | 12 (5.9) | 23 (5.1) | 45 (9.2) | 122 (5.3) | 185 (7.3) | * | * | ||||
| Male, n (%) | 133 (65.5) | 144 (70.6) | 0.27 | 203 (45.2) | 201 (41.0) | 0.20 | 819 (35.5) | 985 (39.0) | 0.01 | 38 (79.2) | 40 (75.5) | 0.66 |
| Socioeconomic class, n (%) | 0.71 | 0.11 | 0.32 | 0.94 | ||||||||
| Low | 65 (32.0) | 61 (29.9) | 143 (31.8) | 184 (37.6) | 854 (37.0) | 915 (36.2) | 16 (33.3) | 16 (30.2) | ||||
| Middle | 70 (34.5) | 85 (41.7) | 142 (31.6) | 142 (29.0) | 741 (32.1) | 789 (31.2) | 13 (27.1) | 17 (32.1) | ||||
| High | 68 (33.5) | 58 (28.4) | 164 (36.5) | 164 (33.5) | 714 (30.9) | 822 (32.5) | 19 (39.6) | 20 (37.7) | ||||
| Comorbidity, mean (SD) | 3.0 (1.6) | 2.7 (1.7) | 0.17 | 2.5 (1.7) | 2.9 (2.0) | <0.01 | 2.1 (1.4) | 2.1 (1.5) | 0.44 | 2.8 (1.8) | 3.3 (1.7) | 0.15 |
*
Cells masked per CMS requirements due to cell size <11 in a cell