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Table 2 Characteristics of eligible patients by enrollment and by reason for non-enrollment

From: Enrolling people of color to evaluate a practice intervention: lessons from the shared decision-making for atrial fibrillation (SDM4AFib) trial

Characteristic of eligible patients

Not enrolled

Enrolled (N = 922)

P-value (vs. enrolled)

Patient Decline (N = 253)

Clinician Decline (N = 632)

 

Patient decline

Clinician decline

Age: Mean (SD)a

70 (11)

71 (11)

71 (10)

.38

.96

Age, n (%)b

  < 50

11 (5%)

26 (4%)

27 (3%)

.46

.32

 50–64

53 (22%)

124 (20%)

201 (22%)

  

  ≥ 65

179 (74%)

456 (75%)

694 (75%)

  

 Unknown

10

26

0

  

Gender, n (%)b

 Female

96 (40%)

255 (42%)

363 (39%)

.99

.32

 Male

147 (60%)

351 (58%)

559 (61%)

  

 Unknown

10

26

0

  

BIPOC, n (%)b

54 (23%)

86 (14%)

147 (16%)

.03

.31

Race, n (%)c

 White

190 (79%)

520 (86%)

767 (84%)

.001

<.001

 Black

47 (20%)

79 (13%)

102 (11%)

  

 Asian

2 (< 1%)

5 (< 1%)

10 (1%)

  

 American Indians or Alaska natives

2 (< 1%)

0

5 (< 1%)

  

 Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islanders

0

0

0 (0%)

  

 Multiple

0

0

22 (2%)

  

 Other

0

0

2 (< 1%)

  

 Unknown

12

28

14

  

Ethnicity, n (%)c

 Hispanic

3 (1%)

2 (< 1%)

7 (< 1%)

.44

.33

 Not Hispanic

228 (99%)

594 (99%)

886 (99%)

  

 Unknown

22

36

29

  
  1. BIPOC Black, Indigenous and people of color; a – t-test statistic; b – Chi-squared test statistic; c – Fisher’s exact test statistic