Table 1 Contraceptive prescription cohort demographics

From: Understanding contraceptive switching rationales from real world clinical notes using large language models

 

Contraceptive switch (n = 1515)

No switch (n = 15,907)

Significance Proportion

Mean age (SD)

25.9 years (7.7)

29.1 years (8.4)

p < 0.001

Race/Ethnicity (%)

Missing (n = 32)

Missing (n = 815)

p < 0.001

White

490 (33.0%)

6813 (45.1%)

 

Latinx

286 (19.3%)

2281 (15.1%)

 

Black or African American

286 (19.3%)

1237 (8.2%)

 

Asian

237 (16.0%)

3071 (20.3%)

 

Other

115 (7.8%)

1224 (8.1%)

 

Multi-Race/Ethnicity

69 (4.7%)

466 (3.1%)

 

Preferred Language (%)

 

Missing (n = 5)

p < 0.001

English

1474 (97.3%)

15405 (96.9%)

 

Spanish

14 (0.9%)

281 (1.8%)

 

Other

27 (1.8%)

216 (1.4%)

 

First prescribed contraceptive, (%)

  

p < 0.001

Implant

160 (10.6)

799 (5.0)

20.0%

Injectable

199 (13.1)

853 (5.4)

23.3%

Intrauterine

64 (4.2)

1266 (8.0)

5.1%

Intravaginal

244 (16.1)

1935 (12.2)

12.6%

Oral

661 (43.6)

10496 (66.0)

6.3%

Transdermal

187 (12.3)

558 (3.5)

33.5%

  1. Demographic information from all patients with contraceptive medication prescriptions. Patients are stratified into groups with and without contraceptive modality switching. Significance is reported between patients with and without contraceptive switching.