Frequency and Percentage of Distributions of Study Sample, Study Pool, and Health Center Population Overall
| Study Pool (N = 465)* n (%) | Study Sample (N = 382)† n (%) | CHC Patient Population Overall (Data Obtained from UDS Reports)‡ % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | |||
| Male | 136 (29.5) | 108 (28.3) | 42 |
| Female | 329 (70.5) | 273 (71.7) | 58 |
| Insurance | |||
| Medicaid | 258 (56.1) | 217 (57.4) | 47 |
| Medicare | 68 (14.8) | 62 (16.4) | 9 |
| Private | 43 (9.3) | 34 (9.0) | 10 |
| None/self-pay | 91 (19.8) | 65 (17.2) | 31 |
| Race§ | |||
| American Indian | 4 (0.9) | 3 (0.8) | 0 |
| Asian | 28 (6.0) | 27 (7.1) | 7 |
| Black | 45 (9.7) | 37 (9.7) | 12 |
| White | 159 (34.2) | 136 (35.6) | 33 |
| Ethnicity‖ | |||
| Hispanic | 188 (40.4) | 151 (39.5) | 43 |
* Includes those patients for whom chart abstractions were completed during the 30-month study period (variable levels may not total 465 because of sporadic missing data).
† Excludes those patients for whom there was only one visit that represented the patient’s first visit to the health center (variable levels may not total 382 because of sporadic missing data).
‡ Federal Government Uniform Data System Report for the reporting period January 1998 to December 1998; reflects the population at the time the study commenced.
§ Data on race were missing from a significant number of the medical records abstracted (49.2% of the data on race were missing from the medical records of the study pool and from 46.9% of the study sample’s charts). Data in the table represent percentages from those charts where race was abstracted.
‖ Data on ethnicity was missing from a significant number of the medical records abstracted (40.2% of the data on ethnicity was missing from the medical records of the sample pool and from 40.3% of the study sample’s charts).