Table 1.
Basic Demographics of Laryngeal Stenosis Patients and Controls in the KIDS Database (Years 2003–2012).
| Characteristics |
Laryngeal Stenosis N = 9751 Est. = 13910 |
Control Group N = 18098 Est. =39179 |
P valuea |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age, yrs, mean (SE) | 3.0 (0.05) | 4.4 (0.06) | < .001 |
| Female, % (SE) | 41.1 (0.51) | 52.2 (0.60) | < .001 |
| Birth weight, gms | 1944 (136) | 3266 (27) | < .001 |
| Race, % (SE) | |||
| White | 43.2 (0.58) | 51.0 (0.64) | < .001 |
| Black | 28.7 (0.52) | 16.0 (0.45) | < .001 |
| Hispanic | 19.0 (0.45) | 22.4 (0.53) | < .001 |
| Asian | 2.2 (0.18) | 4.2 (0.31) | < .001 |
| Native Am | 0.62 (0.08) | 0.72 (0.09) | .43 |
| Other | 6.4 (0.29) | 5.6 (0.31) | .09 |
| Neonate, % (SE) | 15.2 (1.1) | 92.1 (0.40) | < .001 |
| Died, % (SE) | 0.71 (0.09) | 0.33 (0.03) | < .001 |
| Length of Stay, days, mean (SE) | 14.2 (0.29) | 3.6 (0.04) | < .001 |
| Payer, % (SE) | |||
| Medicaid | 47.4 (0.60) | 56.3 (0.51) | < .001 |
| Private | 44.5 (0.60) | 35.5 (0.49) | < .001 |
| Total Charges, dollars, mean (SE) | $106,393 (2528) | $15,146 (348) | < .001 |
| Median Income, % (SE) | |||
| < 25th | 30.9 (0.54) | 31.5 (0.48) | .43 |
| 26th to 50th | 25.5 (0.52) | 25.4 (0.45) | .80 |
| 51st to 75th | 23.8 (0.52) | 23.9 (0.44) | .79 |
| > 75th | 19.8 (0.47) | 19.2 (0.41) | .35 |
| Urban Hospital, % (SE) | 87.6 (0.44) | 98.3 (0.17) | < .001 |
a
P value based upon simple linear regression for continuous variables and Pearson X2 for categorical variables.