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Table 1 Demographic information for the full cohort, and for those with complete and incomplete follow-up

From: Prediction of healthcare utilization following an episode of physical therapy for musculoskeletal pain

Variable

Label

Full cohort at baseline (n = 440)

Completed follow-up (n = 246)

Did not complete follow-up (n = 194)

p-value a

Demographic information

 Age

Mean ± SD

45.06 ± 15.82

46.59 ± 16.00

43.15 ± 15.43

0.02

Median (min, max)

45 (18–75)

47 (18–75)

42 (18–74)

 

 Sex (1 missing)

Male

164 (37.3%)

85 (34.6%)

79 (40.7%)

0.20

Female

275 (62.5%)

160 (65.0%)

115 (59.3%)

 

 Race (7 missing)

White

343 (78.0%)

200 (81.3%)

143 (73.7%)

0.05

Non-white

90 (20.5%)

42 (17.1%)

48 (24.7%)

 

 Ethnicity (33 missing)

Hispanic or Latino

31 (7.0%)

20 (8.1%)

11 (5.7%)

0.36

Not Hispanic or Latino

376 (85.5%)

211 (85.8%)

165 (85.1%)

 

 Education (6 missing)

Less than college graduate

161 (36.6%)

71 (28.9%)

90 (46.4%)

< 0.001

College graduate or higher

273 (62.0%)

172 (69.9%)

101 (52.1%)

 

 Income (66 missing)

$35,000 or less

112 (25.5%)

62 (25.2%)

50 (25.8%)

0.30

$35,000 to $70,000

106 (24.1%)

59 (24.0%)

47 (24.2%)

 

Greater than 70,000

156 (35.5%)

99 (40.2%)

57 (29.4%)

 

 Insurance (26 missing)

Private

273 (62.0%)

156 (63.4%)

117 (60.3%)

0.70

Public

75 (17.0%)

46 (18.7%)

29 (14.9%)

 

Other

66 (15.0%)

36 (14.6%)

30 (15.5%)

 

 Geographic region

Southeast

275 (62.5%)

146 (59.3%)

129 (66.5%)

0.10

Midwest

47 (10.7%)

23 (9.3%)

24 (12.4%)

 

West

98 (22.3%)

65 (26.4%)

33 (17.0%)

 

Northeast

20 (4.5%)

12 (4.9%)

8 (4.1%)

 
  1. a Group comparisons with independent samples t-tests for continuous variables and chi-square tests for categorical variables