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.