Table 1.
Characteristics of Adults Discharged from Private Academic Medical Centers and Other Hospitals in New York City, 2009 and 2014, and Boston, 2009
| NYC 2014 | NYC 2009 | Boston 2009 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMC (%) | Non-AMC (%) | p-value | AMC (%) | Non-AMC (%) | p-value | AMC (%) | Non-AMC (%) | p-value | |
| Age (years) | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||||||
| 18-29 | 11.1 | 14.5 | 10.0 | 14.6 | 11.2 | 9.4 | |||
| 30-49 | 24.5 | 26.8 | 24.7 | 28.4 | 27.4 | 21.4 | |||
| 50-69 | 35.6 | 31.4 | 36.0 | 29.4 | 35.1 | 29.9 | |||
| 70 and over | 28.9 | 27.2 | 29.3 | 27.6 | 26.3 | 39.3 | |||
| Gender – female | 58.5 | 56.6 | <0.001 | 57.6 | 57.3 | 0.007 | 56.2 | 58.2 | <0.001 |
| Race/ethnicity* | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||||||
| Black | 18.3 | 31.3 | 17.1 | 33.0 | 13.9 | 8.0 | |||
| White | 41.3 | 26.6 | 51.8 | 30.5 | 69.9 | 80.4 | |||
| Other Minority | 37.7 | 35.1 | 31.0 | 29.3 | 9.1 | 8.6 | |||
| Missing/unknown | 2.8 | 7.3 | 0.2 | 7.4 | 7.1 | 3.1 | |||
| Insurance | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||||||
| Private | 31.7 | 14.5 | 33.8 | 19.9 | 42.3 | 30.2 | |||
| Medicare | 42.7 | 38.4 | 44.2 | 37.0 | 38.4 | 50.7 | |||
| Medicaid | 22.5 | 42.1 | 19.7 | 37.3 | 14.6 | 14.4 | |||
| Uninsured | 1.4 | 3.7 | 1.4 | 4.9 | 1.1 | 1.0 | |||
| Other | 1.7 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 3.6 | 3.7 | |||
| Unknown | 0.0 | <0.1 | <0.1 | <0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| TOTAL, discharges (hospitals) | 280,079 (10) | 638,710 (44) | 251,795 (9) | 787,130 (49) | 170,640 (6) | 64,272 (7) | |||
Note: P-values represent level of significance for chi-square tests for different distributions between AMCs and non-AMC’s.
AMC = Academic Medical Centers.
*
Black includes black of any ethnicity; white reflects non-Hispanic whites only; other minority includes ‘other race’, ‘white Hispanic’, ‘multi-ethnic white/other race’.