TABLE 1.

Sample description and primary comparison of patients whose preferred language was English versus a language other than English.

		Preferred language
		English		Other
		n	%	n	%	χ 2	p
Sex	Female	85	52.5	32	57.1	0.37	0.55
	Male	77	47.5	24	42.9
Age group	≤25 years	28	17.3	17	30.4	7.4 a	0.006
	26–45 years	62	38.3	20	35.7
	46–65 years	41	25.3	18	32.1
	≥66 years	31	19.1	1	1.8
Disposition	Discharged	134	82.7	51	91.1	2.26	0.13
	Admitted	28	17.3	5	8.9
Emergency severity	2	27	16.7	8	14.3	0.68 a	0.41
Index (ESI) score	3	86	53.1	27	48.2
	4	43	26.5	19	33.9
	5	6	3.7	2	3.6
Current procedural	99,282 (1.24)	19	11.8	8	14.3	5.76 a	0.02
Terminology code	99,283 (2.09)	14	8.7	8	14.3
(relative value unit)	99,284 (3.55)	71	44.1	30	53.6
	99,285 (5.18)	49	30.4	10	17.9
	99,291 (8.11)	8	5.0	0	0.0
Payor type	Medicare	39	24.1	4	7.14	15.51	<0.001
	Medicaid	68	42.0	40	71.4
	Commercial	44	27.2	10	17.9
	None/self‐pay	11	6.8	2	3.6

^a Ordinal value, used chi‐square for trend.