FIGURE 2—

Average Severity of Illness in Overall Sample by Race/Ethnicity: Hawaii, 2010–2012

Note. SOI = severity of illness. Average SOI was ± 1 SD. The sample size was n = 162 152. The 3M Health Information Systems SOI score range was 1–4, with higher scores indicating worse SOI. 3M designed this metric to be used specifically in all patient refined–diagnosis related groups disease categories, and thus overall SOI may not be a meaningful metric. We have included it here because the information on the Micronesian population is limited, and it thus allows a broad comparison of SOI with other hospitalized racial/ethnic groups. However, it should not be considered a definitive measure of SOI overall for any population group considering these caveats. Means across groups were significantly different at P < .001.