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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Laryngoscope. 2017 Jun 22;127(12):2784–2789. doi: 10.1002/lary.26713

Table II.

Selected Outcomes According to Insurance Status.

Number of Patients (%)

Medicaid/Uninsured (n = 140) Medicare, < 65 years (n = 172) Medicare, ≥ 65 years (n = 353) Private (n = 195) P Value
Length of stay, days, mean (std dev) 10.7 (6.9) 9.1 (5.9) 10.0 (11.0) 7.9 (7.2) < .001
Any complication (n = 480) 96 (68.6) 107 (62.2) 191 (54.1) 86 (44.1) < .001
Wound-related complication (n = 309) 62 (44.3) 71 (41.3) 114 (32.3) 62 (31.8) 0.021
Non-wound–related complication (n = 336) 68 (48.6) 68 (39.5) 143 (40.5) 57 (29.2) 0.004
Hospital readmission (n = 128) 24 (17.1) 26 (15.1) 57 (16.1) 21 (10.8) 0.305

Categorical variables analyzed with Fisher's exact test and continuous variables with ANOVA.

ANOVA = analysis of variance; std dev = standard deviation.