Table 1.

Characteristics of Female White, Black, and Hispanic Medicare Patients with Hip Fracture During 1/1/2001–6/30/2003 (Percent)

Patient characteristic	All (n = 35,681)	White (n = 34,039)	Black (n = 1,044)	Hispanic (n = 598)
Age
67–72	9.0	8.9	13.7	7.9
73–78	23.7	23.5	26.2	27.3
79–84	35.4	35.6	32.3	33.3
85–90	31.8	32.0	27.8	31.6
Median per capita income in zip code*
≤$18,542	33.4	31.7	70.7	63.5
$18,543–24,719	33.4	34.2	18.3	16.2
≥$24,720	33.2	34.1	11.0	20.2
Percent high school graduates in zip code*
≤79.4%	33.0	31.0	74.1	75.1
79.5–86.8%	33.6	34.5	16.8	13.9
≥86.9%	33.4	34.5	9.1	11.0
State
Florida	34.2	33.8	29.3	70.9
Illinois	28.4	28.8	29.3	5.2
New York	37.3	37.4	41.4	23.9
Nonurban residence†	14.8	15.3	5.7	1.8
Modified Charlson–Deyo score‡
0	58.8	59.3	49.4	43.8
1	22.7	22.6	24.3	27.8
2 or more	18.5	18.1	26.2	28.4

Patients were categorized as white, black, and Hispanic by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. All P values for all characteristics shown differed by race with P < 0.001.

*According to 2000 U.S. Census

^†Residence in a metropolitan statistical area with <1,000,000 residents

^‡From co-morbidity index based on the diagnoses and weights described by Charlson et al.²² as adapted to ICD-9-CM diagnoses by Deyo et al.²³ and Klabunde et al.²⁴ (see text for further details)