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Table 1 Patient characteristics overall and by PCPs with high or low PSA ordering rates
| N (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | Overall | High rank PCP | Low rank PCP | p-value |
| Overall | 46782 (100) | 22853 (100) | 23929 (100) | |
| Any PSA testing | 32697 (69.9) | 18889 (82.7) | 13808 (57.7) | <0.001 |
| Any PSA testing ordered by patient’s PCP | 24378 (52.1) | 16403 (71.8) | 7975 (33.3) | <0.001 |
| Any PSA testing ordered by provider other than patient’s PCP | 13649 (29.2) | 5810 (25.4) | 7839 (32.8) | <0.001 |
| Age Years) | ||||
| 75–79 | 22024 (47.1) | 10900 (47.7) | 11124 (46.5) | 0.008 |
| 80–84 | 14958 (32.0) | 7287 (31.9) | 7671 (32.1) | |
| ≥ 85 | 9800 (20.9) | 4666 (20.4) | 5134 (21.5) | |
| Ethnicity | ||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 38169 (81.6) | 18673 (81.7) | 19496 (81.5) | <0.001 |
| Black | 1346 (2.9) | 586 (2.6) | 760 (3.2) | |
| Hispanic | 6614 (14.1) | 3209 (14.0) | 3405 (14.2) | |
| Others | 653 (1.4) | 385 (1.7) | 268 (1.1) | |
| Elixhauser Comorbidity | ||||
| 0 | 6110 (13.1) | 2896 (12.7) | 3214 (13.4) | 0.027 |
| 1 | 12846 (27.5) | 6230 (27.3) | 6616 (27.6) | |
| 2 | 11988 (25.6) | 5889 (25.8) | 6099 (25.5) | |
| 3 | 7098 (15.2) | 3559 (15.6) | 3539 (14.8) | |
| ≥ 4 | 8740 (18.7) | 4279 (18.7) | 4461 (18.6) | |
| Medicaid Eligible | ||||
| Yes | 4813 (10.3) | 2328 (10.2) | 2485 (10.4) | 0.481 |
| No | 41969 (89.7) | 20525 (89.8) | 21444 (89.6) | |
| Urban/Rural | ||||
| Metro | 34536 (73.8) | 17847 (78.1) | 16689 (69.7) | <0.001* |
| Non-Metro | 11279 (24.1) | 4730 (20.7) | 6549 (27.4) | |
| Rural | 960 (2.1) | 272 (1.2) | 688 (2.9) | |
| Unknown | 7 (0.0) | 4 (0.0) | 3 (0.0) | |
| Percent of persons in zip code 25 or older with high school education or higher | ||||
| Q1: ≤ 74 % | 11859 (25.3) | 5514 (24.1) | 6345 (26.5) | <0.001* |
| Q2: 74–83 % | 11503 (24.6) | 5009 (21.9) | 6494 (27.1) | |
| Q3: 83–90 % | 11815 (25.3) | 5829 (25.5) | 5986 (25.0) | |
| Q4: 90–100 % | 11529 (24.6) | 6485 (28.4) | 5044 (21.1) | |
| Unknown | 76 (0.2) | 16 (0.1) | 60 (0.3) | |
