Table 2:

Sociodemographic characteristics of patients who presented for musculoskeletal care to one of three care settings between 2018 and 2021.

	Intensive lifestyle (n=50)	Standard non-operative care (n=100)			Standard operative evaluation (n=100)			Missing†
	Mean (SD) or n (%)	Mean (SD) or n (%)	MD [95% CI] or OR [95% CI]	p	Mean (SD) or n (%)	MD [95% CI] or OR [95% CI]	p	n
Age (years)	58.8 (12.1)	53.8 (16.9)	5.1 [−0.3 to 9.8]	.06	62.5 (11.8)	−3.6 [−7.7 to 0.4]	.08	0/0/0
Sex				.15			.10	0/0/0
Female	35 70%	58 (58%)	1.7 [0.8 to 3.48]		56 (56%)	1.8 [0.9 to 3.8]
Male	15 30%	42 (42%)	0.6 [0.3 to 1.2]		44 (44%)	0.5 [0.3 to 1.1]
Race				.029			.012	0/0/0
White	33 (66%)	82 (82%)	0.4 [0.2 to 0.9]		84 (84%)	0.4 [0.2 to 0.8]
Non-white	17 (34%)	18 (18%)	2.3 [1.1 to 5.1]		16 (16%)	2.7 [1.2 to 6.0]
Black	14 (28%)	15 (15%)			14 (14%)
Asian	1 (2%)	3 (3%)			1 (1%)
Other	2 (4%)	0 (0%)			1 (1%)
Ethnicity				>.99			.61	0/1/0
Hispanic	1 (2%)	2 (2%)	1.0 [0.1 to 11.2]		1 (1%)	2.0 [0.1 to 33.0]
Not Hispanic	49 (98%)	97 (98%)	1.0 [0.1 to 11.4]		99 (99%)	0.5 [0.0 to 8.1]
ADI percentile	41.6 (23.6)	47.4 (25.5)	−5.8 [−14.3 to 2.7]	.18	50.4 (26.7)	−8.8 [−17.7 to 0.0]	.0496	0/1/2

All bivariate analyses are compared to the “Intensive lifestyle” group.

Boldface indicates p<.05.

For binary variables (e.g., sex), the odds ratio of a category (e.g., female) is the inverse of the odds ratio for the other category (e.g., male).

^†Missing data are reported as: Intensive lifestyle / Standard non-operative care / Standard operative evaluation.

Abbreviations: MD (mean difference), ADI (national Area Deprivation Index).