Table 1.

Demographic Characteristics of Active Patient Population of Adult Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) Patients in the Intervention (FM) Group and the Control (GIM) Group (N = 71)

Intervention (FM) (Patient N = 47), %Control (GIM) (Patient N = 24), %P-Value
Gender
    Male40.433.3.56
Age (years)
    18 to 2831.929.2.94
    29 to 4442.541.7
    45+25.529.2
Insurance Status
    Private32.634.8.85
    Public67.465.2
Race
    Black10095.8.34
    White04.2
    Other0
Ethnicity
    Non-Hispanic1001001.0
Arrived Office Visits
    1 to 4 visits44.720.8.07
    5 to 10 visits29.829.2
    11 + visits25.550
Emergency Department Visits
    0 visits36.150.31
    1 to 3 visits38.320.8
    4 + visits25.529.2
Hospital Inpatient Visits
    0 visits53.258.3.43
    1 to 3 visits3420.8
    4 + visits12.820.8
Problem Count
    1 to 8 problems36.233.3.44
    9 to 14 problems36.225
    15 + problems27.741.7
  • FM, family medicine; GIM, general internal medicine.