Table 1 |
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Patient characteristics* of all VHA patients with diabetes and the study sample. |
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| Patient characteristic |
Veterans with diabetes |
Study sample |
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| N |
552,128 |
118,167 |
| Age in years, mean ± SD |
64.2 ± 11.1 |
64.1 ± 11.1 |
| Married, % |
61.9 |
62.7 |
| Diabetes treatment, % |
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| No VHA meds |
3.3 |
3.2 |
| Oral agents only |
57.7 |
57.9 |
| Insulin only |
21.9 |
22.7 |
| Insulin + oral agent(s) |
17.2 |
16.2 |
| Comorbidity score ± SD |
3.4 ± 2.6 |
5.1 ± 3.0 |
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*p-values not shown due to large sample and small differences reaching statistical significance. 98% of the sample was male. |
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Safford et al. Implementation Science 2009 4:2 doi:10.1186/1748-5908-4-2 |
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