Table 1.
Characteristics of subjects with acute rhinosinusitis seen in ENT and primary care clinics.
| Total (N = 881) |
ENT (n = 75) |
Family Medicine (n = 259) |
Internal Medicine (n = 84) |
General Medicine OPD (n = 463) |
P Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimated No. of weighted visits | 18,740,912 | 955,390 | 10,526,012 | 5,290,205 | 1,969,305 | |
| Age, y | 46.2 ± 0.8 | 47.1 ± 2.3 | 44.6 ± 1.1 | 50.6 ± 1.8 | 42.7 ± 1.2 | .31 |
| Sex, % female | 65.9 ± 2.6 | 62.7 ± 5.9 | 67.2 ± 3.3 | 63.1 ± 5.9 | 68.0 ± 2.8 | .68 |
| Race, % | .32 | |||||
| White | 86.1 ± 1.9 | 91.3 ± 3.7 | 88.5 ± 2.3 | 81.1 ± 4.3 | 84.2 ± 3.3 | |
| Black | 10.1 ± 1.5 | 3.8 ± 2.5 | 8.5 ± 2.2 | 12.9 ± 3.0 | 14.2 ± 3.2 | |
| Other | 3.8 ± 1.4 | 4.9 ± 2.9 | 3.0 ± 1.1 | 6.0 ± 4.3 | 1.6 ± 0.9 | |
| Ethnicity, % | .095 | |||||
| Hispanic or Latino | 12.4 ± 2.3 | 10.4 ± 3.7 | 15.8 ± 4.0 | 8.0 ± 2.6 | 6.7 ± 2.4 | |
| Region, % | .23 | |||||
| Northeast | 10.1 ± 2.5 | 8.7 ± 3.4 | 9.1 ± 4.1 | 14.0 ± 3.3 | 5.5 ± 1.9 | |
| Midwest | 25.8 ± 3.7 | 27.4 ± 8.3 | 27.3 ± 4.4 | 15.0 ± 3.7 | 46.1 ± 7.7 | |
| South | 48.2 ± 5.0 | 54.7 ± 7.6 | 47.1 ± 5.1 | 56.5 ± 9.2 | 29.8 ± 8.2 | |
| West | 15.9 ± 2.8 | 12.2 ± 4.4 | 16.5 ± 3.4 | 14.5 ± 4.9 | 18.6 ± 7.8 | |
| No. of chronic diseases | 0.92 ± 0.09 | 0.41 ± 0.13 | 0.74 ± 0.11 | 1.41 ± 0.16 | 0.82 ± 0.12 | <.01 |
| Median household income in patient’s zip code | .21 | |||||
| Unknown | 5.7 ± 1.4 | 1.9 ± 1.3 | 7.3 ± 2.2 | 3.9 ± 1.9 | 3.5 ± 1.0 | |
| Quartile 1 (below $32,793) | 15.6 ± 2.6 | 4.7 ± 2.1 | 14.5 ± 2.8 | 15.9 ± 4.9 | 26.4 ± 6.7 | |
| Quartile 2 ($32,794–$40,626) | 28.1 ± 3.2 | 34.8 ± 10.0 | 28.3 ± 4.4 | 27.8 ± 5.1 | 25.0 ± 5.3 | |
| Quartile 3 ($40,627–$52,387) | 25.0 ± 3.2 | 26.8 ± 6.3 | 28.5 ± 4.1 | 20.1 ± 5.5 | 18.5 ± 4.2 | |
| Quartile 4 ($52,388 or more) | 25.6 ± 2.7 | 31.8 ± 9.4 | 21.4 ± 3.5 | 32.4 ± 6.4 | 26.6 ± 5.4 | |
| Expected source of payment | .13 | |||||
| Blank/unknown | 2.5 ± 1.0 | 0 | 3.2 ± 1.7 | 1.3 ± 1.0 | 2.5 ± 1.0 | |
| Private insurance | 71.7 ± 2.8 | 83.9 ± 6.6 | 78.0 ± 2.9 | 60.5 ± 7.0 | 71.7 ± 2.3 | |
| Medicare | 13.2 ± 2.4 | 9.8 ± 4.5 | 9.0 ± 2.0 | 2.4 ± 7.7 | 13.2 ± 2.4 | |
| Medicaid/SCHIP | 5.9 ± 1.1 | 6.3 ± 3.6 | 5.1 ± 1.5 | 6.2 ± 2.4 | 5.9 ± 1.1 | |
| Worker’s compensation | 0.3 ± 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 ± 0.2 | |
| Self-pay | 4.3 ± 1.1 | 0 | 6.0 ± 3.0 | 6.0 ± 3.0 | 4.3 ± 1.1 | |
| No charge/charity | 0.4 ± 0.2 | 0 | 0.4 ± 0.3 | 0 | 0.4 ± 0.2 | |
| Other | 1.7 ± 0.7 | 0 | 1.2 ± 0.6 | 2.2 ± 2.0 | 1.7 ± 0.7 |
Data are presented as weighted estimates of the mean or percentage ± standard error.
Abbreviations: ENT, otolaryngology; OPD, hospital-based outpatient department; SCHIP, State Children’s Health Insurance Program.