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Table 2 Trial 1: comparing paper-referral and ePortal practice implementation, characteristics of 174 community-based practices

From: Evaluating the QUIT-PRIMO clinical practice ePortal to increase smoker engagement with online cessation interventions: a national hybrid type 2 implementation study

 

E-referral (N = 87)

Paper-referral (N = 87)

N

%

N

%

Type

 Internal medicine

36

41.4

44

51.2

 Family medicine

50

57.5

39

45.3

 General practice

1

1.1

3

3.5

Number of physicians

    

 1

59

68.6

54

62.8

 2

15

17.4

23

26.7

 3 or more

12

14.0

9

10.5

Region of country

 Northern East

21

24.1

21

24.1

 South

32

36.8

36

41.4

 Middle West

16

18.4

19

21.8

 West

18

20.7

11

12.6

 

E-referral

Paper-referral

N

Median (IQR)

N

Median (IQR)

Number of patient visits/week

84

123 (100–188)

87

120 (90–160)

Number of smokers/week

87

40.0 (20–60)

87

40.0 (20–50)

Number of computers

84

5.1 (4–9)

85

4.1 (3–7)

  1. Ns vary between 84 and 87 due to the small amount of missing baseline data for some variables. All characteristics are not significantly different (p > 0.05), comparing e-referral and paper-referral practices