Table 2.
Hospital and insurance characteristics of the study population based on their race, ethnicity and sex.
Variable n (%) | White Race |
Black Race |
Hispanic Ethnicity |
Group p-value | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male (n = 55,085 [54.4 %]) | Female (n = 46,225 [45.6 %]) | p-value | Male (n = 18,125 [49.0 %]) | Female (n = 18,850 [51.0 %]) | p-value | Male (n = 11,660 [57.6 %]) | Female (n = 8585 [42.4 %]) | p-value | ||
Hospital Teaching Status | ||||||||||
Rural | 11.2 % | 11.3 % | 0.87 | 6.5 % | 6.3 % | 0.53 | 1.8 % | 1.5 % | <0.01 | <0.01 |
Urban nonteaching | 18.9 % | 18.8 % | 12.1 % | 11.8 % | 19.3 % | 20.8 % | ||||
Urban teaching | 69.9 % | 69.9 % | 81.5 % | 81.9 % | 78.9 % | 77.8 % | ||||
Hospital Bed size | ||||||||||
Small | 23.2 % | 24.4 % | <0.01 | 20.7 % | 20.5 % | 0.21 | 19.4 % | 20.6 % | 0.07 | <0.01 |
Medium | 28.5 % | 28.7 % | 27.0 % | 27.8 % | 28.1 % | 28.1 % | ||||
Large | 48.3 % | 47.0 % | 52.3 % | 51.7 % | 52.5 % | 51.3 % | ||||
Median Household Income in the Zip code | ||||||||||
0–25th percentile | 26.7 % | 25.8 % | <0.01 | 54.5 % | 55.9 % | 0.05 | 41.2 % | 42.6 % | 0.02 | <0.01 |
26th-50th percentile | 30.1 % | 30.1 % | 22.6 % | 21.8 % | 26.5 % | 26.0 % | ||||
51st-75th percentile | 25.1 % | 25.0 % | 14.0 % | 13.8 % | 21.0 % | 21.4 % | ||||
76th-100th percentile | 18.2 % | 19.1 % | 8.8 % | 8.5 % | 11.3 % | 10.0 % | ||||
Primary Payer | ||||||||||
Medicare | 78.2 % | 85.8 % | <0.01 | 61.9 % | 71.7 % | <0.01 | 59.1 % | 65.3 % | <0.01 | <0.01 |
Medicaid | 4.6 % | 3.9 % | 14.6 % | 12.6 % | 19.6 % | 20.0 % | ||||
Private insurance | 12.5 % | 8.5 % | 16.2 % | 13.6 % | 14.3 % | 9.6 % | ||||
Self-pay/other | 1.0 % | 0.7 % | 2.7 % | 1.1 % | 3.3 % | 3.1 % | ||||
Disposition | ||||||||||
Home | 26.6 % | 20.5 % | <0.01 | 35.5 % | 30.0 % | <0.01 | 37.4 % | 33.1 % | <0.01 | <0.01 |
Nursing home/facility | 29.4 % | 37.4 % | 26.5 % | 27.1 % | 18.5 % | 21.4 % | ||||
Home Health Care | 17.3 % | 18.7 % | 13.5 % | 21.2 % | 15.1 % | 18.3 % |
*As per HCUP regulations, observations with cell count <11 are reported as “<11”