Table 1 –
Ankyloglossia Group
| Tongue Tie (ICD-9 750.0) | All Discharges | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % [95% CI] | N | % [95% CI] | OR | P value | ||
| All discharges | 32,837 | 5850184 | |||||
| Age group | <1 year | 32,458 | 98.8% [91.1,106.6] | 4269984 | 73.0% [70.7,75.3] | ||
| Sex | Male** | 20,872 | 63.6% [58.6,68.5] | 2993781 | 51.2% [49.3,53.1] | 1.67 | <0.0001 |
| Female | 11,944 | 36.4% [33.4,39.3] | 2854141 | 48.8% [47.1,50.5] | - | - | |
| Payer | Medicare | 113 | 0.3% [0.2,0.5] | 20659 | 0.4% [0.3,0.5] | 0.97 | 0.783 |
| Medicaid** | 10806 | 32.9% [29.6,36.3] | 2845288 | 48.6% [46.6,50.7] | 0.52 | <0.0001 | |
| Private insurance** | 19749 | 60.1% [54.8,65.5] | 2550281 | 43.6% [41.7,45.5] | 1.96 | <0.0001 | |
| Uninsured | 948 | 2.9% [2.4,3.4] | 207468 | 3.5% [3.3,3.8] | 0.81 | <0.0001 | |
| Other | 1176 | 3.6% [3.0,4.2] | 211478 | 3.6% [3.2,4.0] | 0.99 | 0.744 | |
| Missing | 46 | 0.1% * | 15010 | 0.3% [0.2,0.4] | 0.54 | <0.0001 | |
| Median income for zipcode | Low** | 6806 | 20.7% [18.0,23.5] | 1723887 | 29.5% [28.0,31.0] | 0.62 | <0.0001 |
| Not low** | 25653 | 78.1% [71.8,84.4] | 4014292 | 68.6% [65.7,71.5] | 1.64 | <0.0001 | |
| Missing | 378 | 1.2% [0.9,1.4] | 112005 | 1.9% [1.6,2.2] | 0.6 | <0.0001 | |
| Owner | Government | 4031 | 12.3% [9.8,14.8] | 763782 | 13.1% [12.0,14.1] | 0.93 | <0.0001 |
| Private, not-for-profit | 26448 | 80.5% [73.3,87.8] | 4316055 | 73.8% [70.5,77.1] | 1.47 | <0.0001 | |
| Private, for-profit** | 2359 | 7.2% [5.7,8.7] | 770347 | 13.2% [11.9,14.5] | 0.51 | <0.0001 | |
| Location/ Teaching status | Rural | 3407 | 10.4% [9.1,11.6] | 604476 | 10.3% [9.8,10.8] | 0.97 | 0.798 |
| Urban nonteaching | 10705 | 32.6% [29.3,35.9] | 1838613 | 31.4% [29.8,33.0] | 1.06 | <0.0001 | |
| Urban teaching | 18725 | 57.0% [50.1,64.0] | 3407094 | 58.2% [54.9,61.6] | 0.95 | 0.001 | |
| Bedsize | Small | 3562 | 10.8% [9.2,12.5] | 638027 | 10.9% [9.7,12.1] | 0.99 | 0.733 |
| Medium | 8473 | 25.8% [21.8,29.8] | 1442122 | 24.7% [22.7,26.7] | 1.06 | <0.0001 | |
| Large | 20802 | 63.3% [56.8,69.9] | 3770036 | 64.4% [61.1,67.8] | 0.95 | <0.0001 | |
| Region | Northeast | 6230 | 19.0% [15.6,22.3] | 995190 | 17.0% [15.2,18.9] | 1.14 | <0.0001 |
| Midwest** | 8482 | 25.8% [23.2,28.5] | 1266699 | 21.7% [19.9,23.5] | 1.26 | <0.0001 | |
| South** | 9625 | 29.3% [24.5,34.1] | 2227819 | 38.1% [35.5,40.7] | 0.67 | <0.0001 | |
| West | 8500 | 25.9% [21.4,30.3] | 1360476 | 23.3% [21.3,25.2] | 1.15 | <0.0001 | |
| Children’s hospital | Non-children’s | 25719 | 78.3% [72.3,84.4] | 4089846 | 69.9% [67.4,72.5] | 1.56 | <0.0001 |
| Children’s | 7119 | 21.7% [16.1,27.3] | 1760338 | 30.1% [26.4,33.8] | - | - | |
*
- too small for accuracy
**
- p<0.01 and non-overlapping CI
OR = Odds Ratio, CI = Confidence Interval