Patient characteristics associated with in-person visits
Factor | In-person visits (N=30,987) | Other visits (N=12,276) | P value | Adjusted OR In-person visits (95% CI) | P value |
Age (years), mean±SD | 57.5±17.4 | 54.3±17.4 | <0.001 | 1.01 (1.008 to 1.012) for every 1 year increase in age | <0.001 |
Age ≥65 years, n (%) | 12 354 (39.9) | 3906 (31.8) | <0.001 | ||
Sex, n (%) | 0.055 | ||||
Male | 11,876 (38.3) | 4583 (37.3) | |||
Female | 19,111 (61.7) | 7693 (62.7) | |||
Race, n (%) | <0.001 | ||||
White | 23,868 (77.1) | 9564 (78) | Reference | ||
Black | 4297 (13.9) | 1696 (13.8) | 1.08 (1.008 to 1.15) | 0.029 | |
Hispanic | 1208 (3.9) | 369 (3.0) | 1.43 (1.26 to 1.63) | <0.001 | |
Others | 1583 (5.1) | 637 (5.2) | 1.09 (0.98 to 1.21) | 0.093 | |
Type of insurance | |||||
Private | 18,835 (62.1) | 7626 (63.3) | <0.001 | Reference | |
Medicare | 6699 (22.1) | 2282 (18.9) | 1.001 (0.94 to 1.06) | 0.96 | |
Medicaid and other public | 4430 (14.6) | 2003 (16.6) | 0.99 (0.93 to 1.06) | 0.87 | |
No insurance | 369 (1.2) | 135 (1.1) | 1.07 (0.88 to 1.31) | 0.5 | |
Median household Income by zip code (by quartile), n (%) | |||||
Lowest | 7155 (23.1) | 3166 (25.8) | <0.001 | Reference | |
Second | 7802 (25.2) | 2896 (23.6) | 1.19 (1.11 to 1.27) | <0.001 | |
Third | 8059 (26) | 3123 (25.4) | 1.13 (1.06 to 1.21) | <0.001 | |
Highest | 7969 (25.7) | 3090 (25.2) | 1.14 (1.07 to 1.22) | <0.001 | |
Employment status, n (%) | |||||
Employed | 11,879 (38.3) | 4989 (40.8) | <0.001 | Reference | |
Unemployed | 11,968 (38.6) | 4815 (39.4) | 0.96 (0.91 to 1.02) | 0.19 | |
Retired | 6633 (21.4) | 2076 (17) | 1.03 (0.96 to 1.11) | 0.35 | |
Unknown | 502 (1.6) | 350 (2.9) | 0.74 (0.62 to 0.87) | <0.001 | |
Marital status | |||||
Married | 15,562 (50.2) | 5901 (48.1) | <0.001 | Reference | |
Single | 15,010 (48.4) | 6196 (50.5) | 0.94 (0.90 to 0.98) | 0.012 | |
Others | 414 (1.3) | 179 (1.5) | 0.88 (0.73 to 1.07) | 0.21 | |
H/o tobacco use | 4110 (13.3) | 1793 (14.9) | <0.001 | 0.93 (0.86 to 0.99) | 0.041 |
H/o alcohol use | 13,208 (44.3) | 5486 (46.9) | <0.001 | 0.89 (0.86 to 0.94) | <0.001 |
H/o illicit drug use | 1835 (6.1) | 822 (7) | <0.001 | 0.94 (0.86 to 1.03) | 0.24 |
Primary language | |||||
English | 30,323 (97.9) | 12,032 (98) | 0.036 | Reference | |
Spanish | 286 (0.9) | 127 (1) | 0.73 (0.58 to 0.93) | 0.01 | |
Other languages | 378 (1.2) | 117 (1) | 1.26 (1.005 to 1.58) | 0.045 |