| Characteristic | Practices* |
|---|---|
| Service area | |
| Rural | 26 (62) |
| Urban | 16 (38) |
| Mean provider count (n) | 8.4 |
| Providers (n) | |
| ≤3 | 18 (43) |
| 4–6 | 13 (31) |
| ≥7 | 11 (26) |
| Practice specialty | |
| Family medicine | 31 (73) |
| Internal medicine | 9 (21) |
| Mixed (internal/family medicine) | 2 (5) |
| Practice type | |
| Nonacademic | 37 (74) |
| Academic | 5 (12) |
| Insurance† (mean %) | |
| Medicaid (n = 35) | (23) |
| Uninsured (n = 33) | (18) |
| Practice visits per day (n = 37), n (range) | 73.6 (10–345) |
| Uses electronic health record system | 22 (52) |
| Study practices with baseline clinical data that reached NCQA Diabetes Recognition Program performance thresholds | |
| LDL levels‡ <100 mg/dL | 23 (37) |
| Systolic blood pressure | 31 (36) |
| Hemoglobin A1C | 17 (27) |
| Study practices that reached IPIP goals (n) | |
| LDL levels‡ <100 mg/dL | 1 |
| Systolic blood pressure | 1 |
| Hemoglobin A1C | 4 |
Data are n (%) unless otherwise indicated.
↵* Percentages listed may reflect rounding.
↵† Insurance and practice visit data for several practices are missing.
↵‡ One practice did not have data for low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels.
NCQA, National Committee for Quality Assurance; IPIP, Improving Performance in Practice.