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Table 2 Baseline patient characteristics

From: Clinical decision support improves physician guideline adherence for laboratory monitoring of chronic kidney disease: a matched cohort study

Baseline characteristic

Controls (N = 42,996)

CDSS patients (N = 12,353)

p-value

Baseline Age (yrs)

76.09 (11.51)

73.03 (11.51)

<.001

Gender

 - Female

24673 (57.4 %)

7074 (57.3 %)

0.822

 - Male

18323 (42.6 %)

5279 (42.7 %)

 

Race

 - White-Caucasian

1628 (3.8 %)

491 (4 %)

0.865

 - African-American

799 (1.9 %)

242 (2 %)

 

 - Asian

35 (0.1 %)

11 (0.1 %)

 

 - Hispanic

41 (0.1 %)

12 (0.1 %)

 

 - Other

16 (0 %)

6 (0 %)

 

 - Missing

40477 (94.1 %)

11591 (93.8 %)

 

Baseline eGFR

41.95 (11.36)

41.51 (11.41)

<.001

 - 15–29

7198 (16.7 %)

2195 (17.9 %)

 

 - 30–44

15883 (36.9 %)

4559 (37.1 %)

 

 - 45–59

19915 (46.3 %)

5525 (45 %)

 

Physician Specialty

 - Primary Care

30173 (70.2 %)

7896 (63.9 %)

<.001

 - Nephrology

11802 (27.4 %)

4198 (34 %)

 

 - Other

1021 (2.4 %)

259 (2.1 %)

 
  1. For Baseline Age and Baseline eGFR, numbers are means (standard deviations). For all other characteristics, numbers are N (%)