Table 3.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of children under the age of 2 years who visited the emergency department at Intermountain Healthcare hospitals for bronchiolitis in 2014.
| Characteristic | Emergency department visits (N=3576), n (%) | Emergency department visits discharged to home (N=2208), n (%) | Emergency department visits ending in hospitalization (N=1368), n (%) | |
| Age | ||||
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<2 months | 454 (12.70) | 186 (8.42) | 268 (19.59) |
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2 to <12 months | 2079 (58.14) | 1379 (62.45) | 700 (51.17) |
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12 to 24 months | 1043 (29.17) | 643 (29.12) | 400 (29.24) |
| Gender | ||||
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Male | 2059 (57.58) | 1273 (57.65) | 786 (57.46) |
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Female | 1517 (42.42) | 935 (42.35) | 582 (42.54) |
| Race | ||||
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American Indian or Alaska Native | 47 (1.31) | 31 (1.40) | 16 (1.17) |
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Asian | 68 (1.90) | 40 (1.81) | 28 (2.05) |
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Black or African American | 104 (2.91) | 70 (3.17) | 34 (2.49) |
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Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander | 284 (7.94) | 180 (8.15) | 104 (7.60) |
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White | 2795 (78.16) | 1708 (77.36) | 1087 (79.46) |
|
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Unknown or not reported | 278 (7.77) | 179 (8.11) | 99 (7.24) |
| Ethnicity | ||||
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Hispanic | 1071 (29.95) | 727 (32.93) | 344 (25.15) |
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Non-Hispanic | 2484 (69.46) | 1464 (66.30) | 1020 (74.56) |
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Unknown or not reported | 21 (0.59) | 17 (0.77) | 4 (0.29) |
| Insurance | ||||
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Private | 2175 (60.82) | 1241 (56.20) | 934 (68.27) |
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Public | 1256 (35.12) | 860 (38.95) | 396 (28.95) |
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Self-paid or charity | 145 (4.05) | 107 (4.85) | 38 (2.78) |
| Asthma | 210 (5.87) | 67 (3.03) | 143 (10.45) | |
| Chronic complex condition [40] | 252 (7.05) | 43 (1.94) | 209 (15.28) | |