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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2013 May 13;23(2):327–334. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2013.03.036

Table 1. Demographic data among patients undergoing mechanical thrombectomy procedures.

Frequency of mechanical thrombectomy -- with respect to race, population density, median wealth of zipcode, and expected payer -- among all stroke patients

Group Thrombectomy procedures (% of stroke patients) Pairwise p-value when compared to all other subgroups within category
Ethnicity
White 1691 (0.26%) <0.001
Black 181 (0.18%) <0.001
Hispanic 176 (0.37%) <0.001
Asian/Pacific Islander 70 (0.39%) <0.001
Native American 10 (0.17%) <0.001
other 69 (0.31%) <0.001
Population Density
Central counties with >1 million population 955 (0.33%) <0.001
Fringe counties with >1million population 670 (0.28%) <0.001
Counties with 250K to 1 million 280 (0.15%) <0.001
Counties with 50K to 250K 239 (0.25%) <0.001
Micropolitan counties 306 (0.22%) <0.001
Non-micropolitan/metropolitan counties 181 (0.21%) <0.001
Median wealth of zipcode
< $39,000 824 (0.27%) <0.001*
$39,000 to 47,999 722 (0.24%) <0.001*
$48,000 to 62,999 536 (0.22%) <0.001
≥ $63,000 604 (0.29%) <0.001
Expected payer
Medicare 1463 (0.19%) <0.001
Medicaid 218 (0.40%) <0.001
Private 859 (0.44%) <0.001
Self-pay 142 (0.47%) <0.001
No charge 5 (0.15%) <0.001
Other 62 (0.30%) <0.001
*

: <$39,000 vs $39,000 to 47,999, p= 1.000