Characterizing a Practice-based Research Network: Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network (ORPRN) Survey Tools

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Table 1.

Characteristics of the ORPRN Practices (N = 31 practices)

Characteristic	Percentage
Private practice	58%
Certified rural health clinic	48%
High-speed Internet access	93%
Electronic health record	39%
Accepting new Medicaid patients	96%
Accepting new Medicare patients	96%
Active patient panels per practice (mean)	5663
Patient visits per week (mean)	210
Clinician FTE^* (mean)	3.6
Nonclinician FTE^† (mean)	10.3

Table 2.

Characteristics of Patients in ORPRN Practices (N = 31 practices; 166,003 patients)

Characteristic	Mean	Median	Range
Gender
Male	44%	43%	35% to 60%
Female	56%	57%	40% to 65%
Age
Birth to 4 years	11%	7%	0% to 55%
5 to 14 years	11%	10%	0% to 35%
15 to 44 years	27%	27%	0% to 60%
45 to 64 years	24%	26%	0% to 40%
65 to 74	15%	12%	0% to 40%
75 years or older	10%	10%	0% to 40%
Ethnicity
Hispanic/Latino	12%	3%	0% to 50%
Not Hispanic/Latino	88%	97%	50% to 100%
Overall payment breakdown
Medicare	25%	25%	0% to 70%
Medicaid	23%	18%	4% to 65%
Private	37%	35%	10% to 73%
No insurance	13%	10%	0% to 54%
Other	4%	0%	0% to 74%

Table 3.

Characteristics of ORPRN Clinicians (N = 96)

Characteristic	Percentage
Degree
Physician	66%
Nurse practitioner	18%
Physician assistant	17%
Specialty^*
Family medicine	88%
Internal medicine	7%
Pediatrics	7%
Other	2%
Primary care/occupational medicine	1%
Hospice/palliative care	1%
Age
Under 30 years	3%
30 to 39 years	29%
40 to 49 years	25%
50 to 64 years	41%
65 years or older	2%
Sex
Female	43%
Male	57%
Use E-mail with patients	17%

Table 4.

Services Provided by ORPRN Clinicians

Service	ORPRN Clinicians (n = 96)	ORPRN Family Physicians (n = 55)
General primary care	99%	100%
Emergency room care	46%	58%
Care of hospitalized patients	64%	93%
Mental health treatment/counseling	77%	84%
Substance abuse services	32%	44%
Labor and delivery professional services	31%	55%
Home visits	57%	66%
Nursing home care	68%	91%
Hospice care	56%	78%
Flexible sigmoidoscopy	21%	29%
Colonoscopy	16%	26%
Exercise testing	28%	42%
Ultrasound scanning in pregnancy	12%	18%
Colposcopy	33%	51%
Upper GI Tract Endoscopy	17%	26%

Table 5.

ORPRN Clinicians’ Report of Availability of Services to Their Patients (n = 96)

Service	Always/Almost Always Available	Frequently Available	Sometimes/Rarely, Never Available
Access to general surgery on a timely basis	81%	14%	5%
Referrals to dentists on a timely basis	17%	25%	58%
Nutritional counseling services	49%	22%	29%
Diagnostic imaging services	82%	14%	4%
Inpatient mental health care	12%	13%	76%
Outpatient mental health services	20%	27%	53%
Hospice care	92%	4%	5%