Table 1. Characteristics of EDDC patient population (July 2020 to July 2021).

	EDDC patients (3,616)	Non-EDDC patients (52,975)	P-value
Emergency Severity Index Level (1 = most-acute, 5 = least-acute)
2	8.8%	N/A	N/A
3	75.2%	N/A	N/A
4	15.3%	N/A	N/A
5	0.7%	N/A	N/A
Age (average)	45.7	44.3	<0.0001
Portion of the population ≥65	15.5%	15.4%	0.872
Gender
Male	44.1%	56.5%	<0.0001
Female	55.9%	43.5%
Insurance
Medicaid	31.9%	27.0%	<0.0001
Medicare	11.8%	15.1%	<0.0001
Other/private	51.2%	50.6%	0.485
Uninsured/Self-pay	5.2%	7.4%	<0.0001
Portion of the population with no primary care provider	48.9%	N/A	N/A
Comorbidities
HTN	5.9%	4.2%	<0.0001
DM	3.7%	2.0%	<0.0001
CHF	0.1%	0.0%	<0.0001
Multiple Comorbidities (2 or more)	7.7%	5.2%	<0.0001
Charlson Comorbidity Index (>5)	9.2%	8.3%	0.0585
Race
African-American/Black	36.1%	36.1%	1.00
Asian/Hawaiian	22.1%	19.6%	0.0003
Latino	1.2%	1.3%	0.6066
Native American	0.7%	0.8%	0.512
Multi-racial	24.4%	21.3%	<0.0001
White	14.3%	20.4%	<0.0001
Ethnicity
Hispanic/Latino	16.7%	22.3%	<0.0001
Not Hispanic/Latino	83.3%	77.7%	<0.0001
Portion of the population with non-English speakers	15.8%	Not available	Not available