TABLE 2.
Hospital Summary and Any PDI by Pediatric Patient Discharge Characteristics and Hospital Category (Category Percentages of All Discharges, Any PDI, and Rate per 1000)
| Overall | Hospital Category | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non–Safety-Net | Safety-Net | Children’s | |||||||||||||
| No. of hospitals | 962 | 450 | 501 | 11 | |||||||||||
| No. of discharges (unweighted) | 374 946 | 72 092 | 228 083 | 74 771 | |||||||||||
| No. of discharges (weighted) | 1 887 452 | 371 102 | 1 128 787 | 387 563 | |||||||||||
| Total weighted discharges with ANY PDI event | 6436 | 755 | 3720 | 1961 | |||||||||||
| Rate per 1000 of weighted discharges with ANY PDI event | 3.4 | 2.0 | 3.3 | 5.1 | |||||||||||
| Patient Discharge Characteristic | Category | Overall | Non–Safety-Net | Safety-Net | Children’s | P value* | |||||||||
| Category Percent | Rate per 1000 | Category Percent | Rate per 1000 | Category Percent | Rate per 1000 | Category Percent | Rate per 1000 | ||||||||
| All Discharges | Any PDI | All Discharges | Any PDI | All Discharges | Any PDI | All Discharges | Any PDI | ||||||||
| Age, y | <1 | 27.5 | 28.2 | 3.5 | 24.5 | 21.7 | 1.8 | 28.3 | 27.9 | 3.2 | 27.8 | 31.4 | 5.7 | .005 | |
| 1–2 | 18.0 | 15.4 | 2.9 | 16.4 | 8.5 | 1.0 | 18.5 | 15.5 | 2.8 | 18.2 | 17.9 | 5.0 | |||
| 3–5 | 10.8 | 10.7 | 3.4 | 10.8 | 17.2 | 3.2 | 11.0 | 9.8 | 2.9 | 10.4 | 10.1 | 4.9 | |||
| 6–12 | 21.7 | 21.2 | 3.3 | 21.0 | 20.9 | 2.0 | 20.6 | 21.3 | 3.4 | 25.6 | 21.0 | 4.1 | |||
| 13–17 | 22.0 | 24.5 | 3.8 | 27.2 | 31.7 | 2.4 | 21.6 | 25.6 | 3.9 | 18.0 | 19.5 | 5.5 | |||
| Gender | Male | 54.6 | 55.4 | 3.5 | 53.8 | 57.2 | 2.2 | 54.9 | 56.6 | 3.4 | 54.4 | 52.6 | 4.9 | .438 | |
| Female | 45.4 | 44.6 | 3.3 | 46.1 | 42.8 | 1.9 | 45.1 | 43.4 | 3.2 | 45.6 | 47.4 | 5.3 | |||
| Race/ethnicity | White | 43.7 | 46.0 | 3.6 | 55.3 | 49.3 | 1.8 | 43.0 | 51.5 | 3.9 | 34.9 | 34.3 | 5.0 | .003 | |
| Black | 12.0 | 11.1 | 3.2 | 9.2 | 4.8 | 1.1 | 13.3 | 14.7 | 3.6 | 10.9 | 6.8 | 3.1 | |||
| Hispanic | 20.3 | 20.3 | 3.4 | 8.7 | 3.8 | 0.9 | 21.3 | 17.5 | 2.7 | 28.8 | 32.2 | 5.6 | |||
| Othera | 23.9 | 22.6 | 3.2 | 26.7 | 42.1 | 3.2 | 22.5 | 16.4 | 2.4 | 25.4 | 26.8 | 5.3 | |||
| Insurance payer | Medicaid | 50.1 | 51.5 | 3.5 | 27.5 | 26.4 | 2.0 | 54.2 | 51.4 | 3.1 | 59.7 | 61.4 | 5.2 | <.001 | |
| Private | 41.9 | 40.2 | 3.3 | 64.7 | 59.8 | 1.9 | 36.4 | 39.2 | 3.6 | 36.0 | 34.4 | 4.8 | |||
| Uninsured | 4.0 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 2.9 | 4.7 | 3.3 | 5.1 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 2.2 | |||
| Other | 4.1 | 6.0 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 9.0 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 6.8 | 5.2 | 2.6 | 3.4 | 6.7 | |||
| Severityb | Low | 86.0 | 20.5 | 0.8 | 90.5 | 33.6 | 0.8 | 87.3 | 22.0 | 0.8 | 77.7 | 12.7 | 0.8 | .001 | |
| High | 14.0 | 79.5 | 11.94 | 9.5 | 66.4 | 11.43 | 12.7 | 78.0 | 12.03 | 22.3 | 87.3 | 11.98 | |||
| No. of chronic conditionsc | 0 | 43.1 | 9.6 | 0.8 | 46.6 | 15.2 | 0.7 | 45.9 | 9.8 | 0.7 | 31.7 | 6.9 | 1.1 | .028 | |
| 1 | 28.5 | 15.1 | 1.8 | 27.8 | 21.4 | 1.6 | 28.4 | 16.5 | 1.9 | 29.3 | 10.1 | 1.7 | |||
| 2 or more | 28.4 | 75.3 | 9.0 | 25.6 | 63.4 | 5.0 | 25.8 | 73.7 | 9.4 | 39.1 | 83.0 | 11.07 | |||
Any PDI categorical cell numbers within a patient discharge characteristic may sum to total weighted discharges with any PDI owing to missing values or rounding of estimated weighted discharges. The association between patient discharge characteristics and hospital categories are each significant at the <.001 level. Source: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project 2009 Nationwide Inpatient Sample.
Missing race/ethnicity values are also contained in this category.
Low, APRDRG_Severity rating of 1 (minor loss of function) or 2 (moderate loss of function); High, APRDRG_Severity rating of 3 (major loss of function) or 4 (extreme loss of function).
The weighted (to national level) means for the number of chronic conditions by hospital category are: Non–Safety-Net = 1.06; Safety-Net = 1.08; and Children’s = 1.58.
A P value <.05 indicates a significant difference in the incidence of ANY PDI between patient discharge characteristic category and hospital categories.