Table 1.

Characteristics of older adult patients who visited the ED for a fall, February 1, 2005-December 31, 2011

	Incident visit
	N=21,340
Age, mean (SD)	79 (8)
Sex, Male (%)	7,419 (35)
Race/Ethnicity
White (%)	17,549 (82)
Black (%)	1,251 (6)
Hispanic (%)	888 (4)
Asian (%)	433 (2)
Other (%)	242 (1)
Unknown (%)	977 (5)
Primary Language
English (%)	18,865 (88)
Median Income for zip code, mean (SD)	70,152 (25,778)
Insurance Medicare (%)	15,808 (74)
Private (%)	3,024 (14)
Medicaid/Commonwealth (%)	577 (3)
Self pay (%)	358 (2)
Other/missing (%)	1,573 (7)
Primary care physician listed (%)	21, 263 (100)
Charlson Comorbidity, mean (SD)	2.7 (3)
Injury Severity Score, mean (SD)	5.8 (6)
Disposition
Admitted on index visit(%)	9191 (43)
Hospital (%)	7977 (37)
Observation unit (%)	1214 (6)
Discharged	12149 (57)