Sample Characteristics
Patient characteristics (percent) | |
Female | 56.5 |
White | 59.4 |
Black | 15.5 |
Hispanic | 19.5 |
Age 40 to 59 | 57.3 |
Age 60 to 75 | 39.0 |
Age 76 to 79 | 3.6 |
Patient population groups (percent) | |
![]() | 49.8 |
![]() | 33.9 |
![]() | 1.6 |
![]() | 2.8 |
![]() | 4.2 |
![]() | 7.8 |
Number of patients | |
NHANES sample | 1295 |
EN patient population | 3,961,384 |
Notes: The table shows characteristics of the NHANES sample. Weights are used for all patient characteristics and patient population group values. The number of EvidenceNOW patients corresponding to the NHANES sample is based on calculations using number of clinicians and number of patients per clinicans (see Online Appendix for details).
Abbreviations: EN = EvidenceNOW; = people in the denominator only requiring smoking intervention;
= people in the denominator for cholesterol management and smoking intervention;
= people in the denominator for blood pressure control and smoking intervention;
= people in the denominator for aspirin prescription, cholesterol management and smoking intervention;
= people in the denominator for blood pressure control, cholesterol management and smoking intervention; GABCS = people in the denominator for aspirin prescription, blood pressure control, cholesterol management and smoking intervention.