Table 2.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of children under the age of 2 years who visited the emergency department at Intermountain Healthcare hospitals for bronchiolitis in 2013.
| Characteristic | Emergency department visits (N=4022), n (%) | Emergency department visits discharged to home (N=2382), n (%) | Emergency department visits ending in hospitalization (N=1640), n (%) | |
| Age | ||||
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<2 months | 518 (12.88) | 211 (8.86) | 307 (18.72) |
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2 to <12 months | 2424 (60.27) | 1498 (62.89) | 926 (56.46) |
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12 to 24 months | 1080 (26.85) | 673 (28.25) | 407 (24.82) |
| Gender | ||||
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Male | 2369 (58.90) | 1414 (59.36) | 955 (58.23) |
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Female | 1653 (41.10) | 968 (40.64) | 685 (41.77) |
| Race | ||||
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American Indian or Alaska native | 51 (1.27) | 26 (1.09) | 25 (1.52) |
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Asian | 49 (1.22) | 20 (0.84) | 29 (1.77) |
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Black or African American | 124 (3.08) | 78 (3.27) | 46 (2.80) |
|
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Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander | 321 (7.98) | 160 (6.72) | 161 (9.82) |
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White | 2940 (73.10) | 1784 (74.90) | 1156 (70.49) |
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Unknown or not reported | 537 (13.35) | 314 (13.18) | 223 (13.60) |
| Ethnicity | ||||
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Hispanic | 1321 (32.84) | 826 (34.68) | 495 (30.18) |
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Non-Hispanic | 2687 (66.81) | 1549 (65.03) | 1138 (69.39) |
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Unknown or not reported | 14 (0.35) | 7 (0.29) | 7 (0.43) |
| Insurance | ||||
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Private | 2436 (60.57) | 1338 (56.17) | 1098 (66.95) |
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Public | 1422 (35.36) | 933 (39.17) | 489 (29.82) |
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Self-paid or charity | 164 (4.08) | 111 (4.66) | 53 (3.23) |
| Asthma | 207 (5.15) | 72 (3.02) | 135 (8.23) | |
| Chronic complex condition [40] | 296 (7.36) | 60 (2.52) | 236 (14.39) | |