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. 2013 Oct 29;8(10):e78047. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078047

Table 2. Characteristics of the hospitals treating patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage via surgical clipping or endovascular coiling, by insurance status.

Private Medicare Medicaid Uninsured F
p * p * p *
Teaching hospital (%) 59 60 0.5920 67 0.0065 66 0.0199 0.0131
Rural location (%) 3.3 3.0 0.7950 1.8 0.1464 2.7 0.6146 0.5340
Hospital region (%) 0.9994 0.6112 0.6298 0.8517
Northeast 17 17 16 15
Midwest 22 22 22 23
South 36 37 36 43
West 24 24 26 18
Annual Aneurysm ProcedureVolume (median+range)+ 27(0.14–134) 30.5(0.14–134) 0.0075 25.8(0.25–134) 0.2128 25.8(0.25–134) 0.7574
Time to Aneurysm Repair, days(median+range)+ 1 (0–69) 1 (0–50) <0.0001 1 (0–106) <0.0001 1 (0–40) 0.1138 <0.001
Time to Ventriculostomy, days(median+range)+ 0 (0–52) 0 (0–62) 0.2955 0 (0–77) 0.4034 0 (0–42) 0.6828 0.209
*

P values are for comparison with private insurance.

+

For non-normal distributions, Wilcoxon rank sum and Kruskal-Wallis test are used for nonparametric alternative to two-sample t-test and ANOVA respectively.