Focus Group Participant and Practice Characteristics
Focus group participants (n = 139) | |
Primary role | |
Physician, PA, NP | 45 |
RN, LPN | 21 |
Medical Assistant | 20 |
Office Manager | 5 |
Front Office | 30 |
Medical Records/billing | 13 |
Other | 2 |
Missing | 3 |
Gender | |
Male | 31 |
Female | 108 |
Ethnicity | |
Hispanic | 14 |
Non-Hispanic | 113 |
Missing | 12 |
Race | |
White | 101 |
African American | 9 |
Asian American | 3 |
Native American | 3 |
Other | 14 (Hispanic) |
Missing | 9 |
Years at practice (average) | 5 |
Age in years (average) | 39 |
Participating practices (n = 8) | |
Residency | 4 |
Non-residency | 4 |
Rural | 2 |
Non-rural | 6 |
Community Health Center | 1 |
Non-community Health Ctr | 7 |
Electronic Health Record (EHR) | |
No | 5 |
Partial EHR | 2 |
Full EHR | 1 |
Number of physicians | |
1 to 2 | 2 |
3 to 5 | 2 |
6 to 10 | 0 |
11 to 15 | 2 |
16+ | 2 |
Number of staff | |
1 to 5 | 1 |
6 to 15 | 2 |
16+ | 5 |