Table 1.
Patient and Hospital characteristics of neonatal emergency department visits by race.
| Race / Ethnicity (Column %'s) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Non-Hispanic White | Non-Hispanic Black | Hispanic | P | |
| N | 1,826,777 | 841,180 | 524,949 | 460,648 | |
| Age of presentation | |||||
| 0-7 days | 624,912 | 333,943 (40%) | 103,962 (20%) | 187,007 (41%) | 0.0024 |
| 8-14 days | 444,379 | 210,470 (25%) | 129,087 (25%) | 104,822 (23%) | |
| 15-21 days | 420,244 | 123,875 (15%) | 175,072 (33%) | 121,297 (26%) | |
| 22-27 days | 337,242 | 172,892 (21%) | 116,828 (22%) | 47,522* (10%) | |
| Insurance | |||||
| Private | 496,641 | 292,789 (35%) | 120,207 (23%) | 83645 (18%) | 0.053 |
| Medicaid | 864,622 | 317,523 (38%) | 280,860 (54%) | 266,239 (58%) | |
| Uninsured | 298,307 | 148,469 (18%) | 70,676 (13%) | 79,162 (17%) | |
| Other | 167,207 | 82,399 (10%) | 53,206 (10%) | 31,602 (7%) | |
| Region | |||||
| Northeast | 341,740 | 167,871 (20%) | 65,476 (13%) | 108,393 (24%) | 0.0002 |
| Midwest | 387,398 | 207,099 (25%) | 119,143 (23%) | 61,156* (13%) | |
| South | 850,782 | 363,251 (43%) | 307,332 (59%) | 180,199 (39%) | |
| West | 246,857 | 102,959 (12%) | 32,998* (6%) | 110,900 (24%) | |
| Hospital status | |||||
| Safety-net | 1,240,305 | 480,731 (57%) | 410,376 (78%) | 349,198 (76%) | 0.004 |
| Non-Safety-net | 586,472 | 360,449 (43%) | 114,573 (22%) | 111,450 (24%) | |
*
Cells marked with “*” are estimates based on < 30 visits—considered unreliable by the National Center for Health Statistics.