Table 1.

Patient Characteristics

	Younger Patients 18–64 (n = 2529)	Older Patients 65–74 (n = 520)	Oldest Patients ≥75 (n = 404)	P
Patient age	41.8	69.5	81.3	<0.001^*
Patient gender (% female)	64.9	60.6	65.7	0.151
Patient race (% non-white)	15.2	8.5	7.7	<0.001^†^‡
New vs established patient (% new)	10.2	4.4	3.2	<0.001^†^‡
Reason for visit (%)
Acute illness	59.5	43.8	43.1	<0.001^†^‡
Chronic illness	21.7	41.9	47.3
Well care	10.3	9.8	6.2
Other	8.6	4.4	3.5
Number of visits in previous year	4.0	4.9	5.6	<0.001^*
Years as patient of physician	5.2	8.2	8.2	<0.001^†^‡
Number of chronic illnesses	2.1	4.2	5.0	<0.001^*
Completed patient exit questionnaire (%)	74.6	84.8	81.9	<0.001^†^‡
Satisfaction with physician (1 = poor, 5 = excellent)	4.4	4.6	4.5	<0.001^†