Table 2.
Demographic, clinical and hospital characteristics of patients readmitted and not readmitted within 30 days
| Characteristic | Readmitted within 30 days of an index hospital discharge |
P value* | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes (n = 28) | No (n = 320) | ||
| Patient demographic characteristics | |||
| Mean age (standard deviation) | 8.1 (10.4) | 8.6 (7.3) | 0.77 |
| Age in categories (%) | |||
| Neonate (0–30 days) | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.27 |
| Infancy (31–365 days) | 17.9 | 15.6 | |
| Early childhood (1–4 years) | 42.9 | 24.1 | |
| Late childhood (5–12 years) | 14.3 | 30.0 | |
| Adolescence (13–18 years) | 17.9 | 21.6 | |
| Adulthood (>18 years) | 7.1 | 7.8 | |
| Male (%) | 71.4 | 53.4 | 0.08 |
| Race/ethnicity (%) | |||
| Non-Hispanic White | 64.3 | 69.4 | 0.17 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 14.3 | 8.1 | |
| Hispanic | 17.9 | 8.8 | |
| Other | 3.6 | 5.6 | |
| Missing | 0.0 | 8.1 | |
| Primary insurance: public (%) | 28.6 | 19.4 | 0.32 |
| Patient clinical characteristics | |||
| Mean no. of CCCs (standard deviation) | 0.4 (0.7) | 0.3 (0.6) | 0.36 |
| Any CCCa (%) | 35.7 | 25.3 | 0.26 |
| Neuromuscular | 14.3 | 6.3 | 0.12 |
| Cardiovascular | 7.1 | 10.0 | 1.0 |
| Other congenital or genetic defect | 7.1 | 5.9 | 0.68 |
| Respiratory | 3.6 | 2.8 | 0.57 |
| Gastrointestinal | 3.6 | 2.2 | 0.49 |
| Renal | 3.6 | 1.9 | 0.45 |
| Metabolic | 3.6 | 0.6 | 0.22 |
| Hematologic or immunologic | 0.0 | 2.2 | 1.0 |
| Use of durable medical equipment (%) | 51.9 | 30.2 | 0.03 |
| Index hospitalization characteristics | |||
| Mean length of hospital stay in days (standard deviation) | 4.6 (6.0) | 2.2 (3.8) | 0.002 |
| Discharge disposition (%) | |||
| Home | 82.1 | 94.7 | 0.02 |
| Home with home health care | 17.9 | 5.3 | |
aPatients may have more than one complex chronic condition.
*P values were obtained from Fisher's exact tests and t-test for categorical and continuous data, respectively.