Demographics & Health Conditions
With seven health care systems treating over 10 million patients, PaTH gives researchers the opportunity to work with and learn from larger and more diverse populations than would be available in any single system.
For instance, sites with smaller percentages of young patients, such as Penn State and Temple, can benefit from their partner sites’ higher percent of patients under 18. Meanwhile, the other sites gain Penn State’s high percent of patients who are 65 and older.
Likewise, Temple University offers a higher percent of African American patients than its partner sites, while the University of Utah brings a higher percent of Hispanic and Latino patients to studies.
By combining populations, the PaTH Network is able to increase the quantity, quality, and diversity of patient data available to researchers and therefore strengthen their study findings.
| Pitt/UPMC | PSCoM/HMC | TUHS | JHU | Geisinger | OSU | UofM | PaTH Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enrollment | ||||||||
| total # of patients in CDM | 3,769,209 | 1,188,031 | 1,199,151 | 3,227,975 | 2,082,953 | 1,326,701 | 1,958,971 | 14,752,991 |
| Age | ||||||||
| Percent 17 years or younger | 18.23% | 21.29% | 10.91% | 4.06% | 15.35% | 6.02% | 16.84% | 15.29% |
| Percent 18 to 44 years | 32.53% | 32% | 36.86% | 31.64% | 34.52% | 38.22% | 34.58% | 33.71% |
| Percent 45 to 64 years | 23.86% | 22.57% | 27.47% | 26.53% | 23.82% | 29.24% | 24.25% | 25.17% |
| Percent 65 years or older | 25.33% | 24.14% | 24.76% | 27.77% | 26.31% | 26.52% | 24.12% | 25.8% |
| Race/Ethnicity | ||||||||
| Percent American Indian/Alaska Native | 0.21% | 0.17% | 0.08% | 0.2% | 0.15% | 0.12% | 0.31% | 0.19% |
| Percent Asian | 1.56% | 1.65% | 2.98% | 4.65% | 1.3% | 3.04% | 4.52% | 2.85% |
| Percent black or African American | 8.23% | 5.47% | 29.61% | 22.62% | 5.26% | 13.99% | 7.52% | 12.9% |
| Percent white | 81.62% | 68.79% | 36.93% | 55.41% | 90.57% | 71.37% | 63.47% | 69.15% |
| Percent Asian/Pacific Islander | 0.06% | 0.07% | 0.03% | 0.08% | 0.5% | 0.05% | 0.08% | 0.12% |
| Percent unknown | 8.33% | 20.61% | 30.36% | 16.98% | 2.23% | 0.32% | 24.11% | 13.52% |
| Percent multiple races | 0% | 3.24% | 0% | 0.05% | 0% | 0.73% | 0% | 0.34% |
| Percent hispanic | 0.96% | 6.65% | 13.29% | 5.81% | 5.23% | 2.62% | 2.7% | 4.46% |
Objective: Counts of the number of distinct patients in 2017 with the following codes of interest: Respiratory Conditions, Selected Malignancies, Myocardial Infarction, Stroke, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Ulcerative Colitis, Hypertension, Renal Disease, and Influenza/Pneumonia within PCORnet Clinical Data Research Network.
| PCORnet: Characteristics by Condition Cluster Count1 | Respiratory Conditions | Selected Malignancies | Myocardial Infarction | Stroke | Rheumatoid Arthritis | Ulcerative Colitis | Hypertension | Renal Disease | Influenza / Pneumonia | Diabetes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | |
| Overall (N) | 122,924 | 196,521 | 26,207 | 46,345 | 41,496 | 16,683 | 931,548 | 158,161 | 98,245 | 386,106 |
| By Age Group2 | ||||||||||
| 01-20 | 406 | 3,999 | 39 | 732 | 313 | 988 | 5,420 | 1,963 | 28,013 | 8,357 |
| 21-44 | 4,931 | 17,088 | 1,384 | 3,162 | 5,356 | 5,215 | 91,903 | 9,681 | 15,407 | 40,858 |
| 45-64 | 49,024 | 71,603 | 9,355 | 15,074 | 18,188 | 5,890 | 375,834 | 42,126 | 23,539 | 159,167 |
| 65-74 | 36,409 | 59,505 | 7,216 | 12,143 | 10,297 | 2,792 | 241,959 | 42,644 | 13,847 | 101,782 |
| 75+ | 32,154 | 44,326 | 8,213 | 15,234 | 7,342 | 1,798 | 216,432 | 61,747 | 17,439 | 75,942 |
| By Sex2 | ||||||||||
| Female | 65,449 | 81,088 | 10,539 | 23,476 | 31,191 | 8,999 | 478,579 | 76,641 | 51,666 | 192,138 |
| Male | 57,473 | 115,430 | 15,668 | 22,869 | 10,305 | 7,684 | 452,961 | 81,517 | 46,579 | 193,963 |
| Other/Missing | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| By Race2 | ||||||||||
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 174 | 138 | 38 | 54 | 46 | 21 | 1,033 | 177 | 122 | 575 |
| Asian | 445 | 2,583 | 212 | 540 | 383 | 134 | 9,394 | 1,190 | 1,593 | 5,277 |
| Black/African American | 13,421 | 19,713 | 2,895 | 6,946 | 4,276 | 1,103 | 128,531 | 25,080 | 12,934 | 58,724 |
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 50 | 75 | 22 | 31 | 29 | 10 | 798 | 91 | 117 | 1,922 |
| White | 101,062 | 163,893 | 21,273 | 35,287 | 34,072 | 14,434 | 723,761 | 121,818 | 75,521 | 285,849 |
| Other/Missing | 7,772 | 8,640 | 1,767 | 3,487 | 2,690 | 978 | 68,031 | 9,805 | 7,958 | 33,759 |
| By Hispanic2 | ||||||||||
| Yes | 1,948 | 3,983 | 654 | 1,366 | 1,160 | 248 | 22,379 | 3,376 | 3,833 | 13,733 |
| No | 111,344 | 182,318 | 23,807 | 41,884 | 37,665 | 15,341 | 839,647 | 145,349 | 87,806 | 343,895 |
| Other/Missing | 9,632 | 10,220 | 1,746 | 3,095 | 2,671 | 1,094 | 69,522 | 9,436 | 6,606 | 28,478 |
1 Condition cluster counts are based solely on assignment of any of the listed coded diagnoses provided here during 2017. These counts should not be interpreted as epidemiological estimates of the listed conditions, but instead reflect a count of the number of times the listed diagnosis is coded during 2017. Coding procedures may vary from site to site. Duplicate data may exist. The period of time in 2017 during which data were available may vary between Network Partners.
2 Some stratified counts may not equal the total N counts because of low cell count masking.
