Table 2.
Patient Characteristics, N = 620
| Age in years, mean (SD) | 5.2 (5.2) |
| Gender, n (%) | |
| Male | 344 (55.5) |
| Female | 276 (44.5) |
| Race, n (%) | |
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 5 (0.8) |
| Asian | 7 (1.1) |
| Black or African American | 181 (29.0) |
| Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander | 4 (0.7) |
| White | 298 (48.1) |
| Multiracial | 5 (0.8) |
| Unknown | 121 (19.5) |
| Ethnicity, n (%) | |
| Hispanic or Latino | 159 (25.7) |
| Not Hispanic or Latino | 348 (56.1) |
| Unknown | 113 (18.2) |
| Triage categorya, n (%) | |
| Nonurgent | 38 (6.1) |
| Urgent | 437 (70.5) |
| Emergent | 144 (23.2) |
| Unknown | 1 (0.2) |
| Arrived by emergency medical service, n (%) | |
| Yes | 99 (16.0) |
| No | 521 (84.0) |
| Discharge disposition, n (%) | |
| Discharged home | 528 (85.2) |
| Observation unit—transitional care unit | 11 (1.8) |
| Admitted to floor | 65 (10.5) |
| Admitted to pediatric intensive care unit | 12 (1.9) |
| Transferred | 2 (0.3) |
| Other | 2 (0.3) |
a
Emergent = Emergency Severity Index levels 1 and 2; Urgent = levels 3 and 4; Nonurgent = level 5.