Table 4.
Characteristics of Pennsylvania residents discharged from UPHS with a primary diagnosis of heart failure, 2005–2012, stratified by whether the patient was not readmitted within 30 days, readmitted to UPHS or readmitted to a hospital elsewhere in Pennsylvaniaa
| Not readmitted |
Readmitted |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 3405 | To UPHS n = 810 |
Elsewhere n = 333 |
P b | |
| Sociodemographic characteristics | ||||
| Age, years | 69 (56, 80) | 68 (55, 80) | 65 (51, 76) | 0.003 |
| Male, n (%) | 1529 (45) | 417 (51) | 190 (57) | 0.09 |
| Race, n (%) | 0.73 | |||
| Black | 2299 (68) | 530 (65) | 226 (68) | |
| White | 1037 (30) | 260 (32) | 99 (30) | |
| Other | 69 (2) | 20 (2) | 8 (2) | |
| Hispanic ethnicity, n (%) | 15 (<1) | 7 (1) | 1 (<1) | 0.45 |
| Insurance, n (%) | 0.001 | |||
| Medicare | 2281 (67) | 543 (67) | 195 (59) | |
| Medicaid | 634 (19) | 163 (20) | 97 (29) | |
| Private | 460 (14) | 102 (13) | 37 (11) | |
| Uninsured | 30 (1) | 2 (<1) | 4 (1) | |
| Discharging hospital, n (%) | 0.003 | |||
| Pennsylvania Hospital | 924 (27) | 237 (29) | 70 (21) | |
| Presbyterian Medical Center | 1228 (36) | 287 (35) | 113 (34) | |
| University of Pennsylvania | 1253 (37) | 286 (35) | 150 (45) | |
| Concurrent diagonses, n (%) | ||||
| Diabetes mellitus | 1283 (38) | 302 (37) | 111 (33) | 0.22 |
| COPD | 839 (25) | 199 (25) | 95 (29) | 0.18 |
| Coronary artery disease | 1250 (37) | 335 (41) | 131 (39) | 0.55 |
| Hypercholesterolemia | 809 (24) | 167 (21) | 64 (19) | 0.63 |
| Hypertension | 2107 (62) | 485 (60) | 208 (62) | 0.42 |
| Acute stroke | 8 (<1) | 2 (<1) | 2 (1) | 0.58 |
| Admissions in previous year, # | 1 (0, 2) | 2 (1, 4) | 3 (1, 5) | <0.001 |
COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
a
Summaries presented as median (25th, 75th percentile) unless otherwise indicated as n (%).
b
P values compare characteristics between patients readmitted to UPHS and patients readmitted elsewhere, obtained from Wilcoxon rank-sum tests for continuous variables or Fisher’s exact tests for categorical variables.