. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 27.

Published in final edited form as: J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2017 Jun 23;80(6):315–325. doi: 10.1080/15287394.2017.1297275

Table 4.

Relationship between being advised (or not) to evacuate and the percent that did, their personal impact, and their percent medical need. Personal impact rating on a scale of 0=No effect to 5=Very High.

	Told to Evacuate	Not Told	χ2 (p)
Sample Size	49	268
Percent Evacuated	77.6%	5.6%
Rating of Sandy impact on patient	4.0 ± 0.2	3.9 ± 0.3	NS
% with any "medical need" during or immediately after Sandy	36.8%	20.0%	NS
Percent Not Evacuated	22.4%	94.4%
Rating of Sandy impact on patient	4.1 ± 0.3	3.3 ± 0.1	4.4 (0.04)
% with any "medical need" during or immediately after Sandy^a	45.5%	17.0%	5.7 (0.02)

. Composite need determined by investigators from five variables.