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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2014 Dec 3;81(3):158–162. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2014.11.014

Table 1.

Demographic Characteristics of Study Participants

Emergency Department (n = 446) Intensive Care Unit (n = 472) Combined Total (N = 918)

Characteristic n (%) n (%) n (%)
Age; mean [range] 55 [20–103] 60 [19–99] 57 [19–103]
Sex
 Male 249 (55.8) 267 (56.6) 516 (56.2)
 Female 194 (43.5) 205 (43.4) 399 (43.5)
 Not Reported 3 (0.7) 0 (0.0) 3 (0.3)
Race/Ethnicity
 Black 278 (62.3) 254 (53.8) 532 (58.0)
 White 113 (25.3) 147 (31.1) 260 (28.3)
 Other 23 (5.2) 28 (5.9) 51 (5.6)
 White Hispanic 18 (4.0) 11 (2.3) 29 (3.2)
 Unknown 2 (0.5) 19 (4.0) 21 (2.3)
 Not Reported 5 (1.1) 7 (1.5) 12 (1.3)
 Asian 3 (0.7) 5 (1.1) 8 (0.9)
 Black Hispanic 4 (0.9) 0 (0.0) 4 (0.4)
 American Indian 0 (0.0) 1 (0.2) 1 (0.1)