Table 1.

Sample Characteristics

Patient characteristics (percent)
Female56.5
White59.4
Black15.5
Hispanic19.5
Age 40 to 5957.3
Age 60 to 7539.0
Age 76 to 793.6
Patient population groups (percent)
Embedded Image 49.8
Embedded Image 33.9
Embedded Image 1.6
Embedded Image 2.8
Embedded Image 4.2
Embedded Image 7.8
Number of patients
NHANES sample1295
EN patient population3,961,384

  • 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 Appendix for details).

    Abbreviations: EN = EvidenceNOW; Embedded Image = people in the denominator only requiring smoking intervention; Embedded Image = people in the denominator for cholesterol management and smoking intervention; Embedded Image = people in the denominator for blood pressure control and smoking intervention; Embedded Image = people in the denominator for aspirin prescription, cholesterol management and smoking intervention; Embedded Image = 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.