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Table 1 Characteristics of participating patients, practice members, and primary care practices

From: Alignment of patient and primary care practice member perspectives of chronic illness care: a cross-sectional analysis

Primary care patients with 1 or more chronic illnesses (N = 1,886)

Age in years, mean (SD)

55.1 (15.2)

Female (%)

65.0

Ethnicity

 

    White non-Hispanic (%)

39.7

    Hispanic (%)

48.7

    Black (%)

5.5

    Other (%)

6.1

Education

 

    High school graduate/GED or less (%)

42.6

    High school graduate with some college (%)

31.0

    College graduate (%)

26.4

Self-rated health, mean (SD)

3.0 (0.9)

Practice Members (N = 283)

Physicians (%)

15.8

Non-physician primary care providers (PAs, NPs)

6.5

Direct care staff (%)

43.7

Non-direct care staff (%)

34.1

Practices (N = 39)

Number of providers, M (SD)

2.17 (1.1)

Number of non-provider staff, M (SD)

8.5 (6.8)

Office Visits per Day per FTE, Mean (SD)

23.0 (5.5)

Percentage of Medicaid Patients, M (SD)

12.3 (16.2)

Percentage of Medicare Patients, M (SD)

32.8 (21.5)

Percentage of White Patients, M (SD)

28.9 (18.7)

Percentage of Practices with EMR (%)

51.3