Table 1.
Demographic and clinical factors of hospitalizations with at least one request for outside information
| No. (%) N = 2091 | |
|---|---|
| Female | 1061 (50.7) |
| Language preference | |
| English | 1949 (93.2) |
| Spanish | 95 (4.5) |
| Unknown/Other | 47 (2.3) |
| Marital status | |
| Single | 1361 (65.1) |
| Married | 652 (31.2) |
| Unknown/Other | 78 (3.7) |
| Primary care provider | 1235 (59.1) |
| Payer class | |
| Commercial | 627 (30) |
| Medicare | 817 (39.1) |
| Medicaid | 465 (22.2) |
| HCHCP | 137 (6.6) |
| Other | 45 (2.1) |
| Admission source | |
| Emergency room | 1921 (91.9) |
| Physician-referral | 84 (4) |
| Outside hospital | 84 (4) |
| Other | 2 (0.1) |
| Mean (SD) | |
| Age | 53.5 (17.3) |
| Length of stay | 6.7 (10) |
HCHCP Hillsborough Country Health Care Plan