Table 3.

Patient Age and Severity of Illness with Presence of Interpreter on Day of Admission or Discharge from Hospital

Encounter with Interpreter	n	Mean Severity Weight (S.E.)	Median Severity	Mean Age in Years (S.E.)	Median Age
Neither on admission nor discharge	423	1.98 (0.13)	1.18	63.1 (0.81)	64.8
Admission, but not on discharge	963	1.56 (0.05)	1.10	57.2 (0.54)	58.8
Discharge, but not on admission	482	1.36 (0.08)	1.00	59.9 (0.80)	62.8
Both day of admission and discharge	1192	1.34 (0.03)	1.03	56.5 (0.48)	58.6

Statistically significant differences in mean patient age and severity of illness among patients with encounters with interpreters, ANOVA, P < 0.001