Table 1.
Descriptive Characteristics of Children With and Without Feeding and Respiratory Technology Dependence.
| Patient Characteristic | Technology Dependence (N=1989) |
No Technology Dependence (N=8089) |
P- value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age at Pediatric ICU Admission in Years | <0.001 | ||
| < 1 | 470 (23.6%) | 2324 (28.7%) | |
| 1-5 | 767 (38.6%) | 2100 (26.0%) | |
| 5-12 | 473 (23.8%) | 1771 (21.9%) | |
| 12-18 | 279 (14.0%) | 1894 (23.4%) | |
| Gender | 0.053 | ||
| Female | 859 (43.2%) | 3689 (45.6%) | |
| Male | 1130 (56.8%) | 4400 (54.4%) | |
| Race | (1) | ||
| Black | 448 (22.5%) | 1848 (22.8%) | |
| White | 1066 (53.6%) | 4096 (50.6%) | |
| Unknown/Other | 475 (23.9%) | 2145 (26.5%) | |
| Primary Payer Type | <0.001 | ||
| Government | 1275 (64.1%) | 4145 (51.2%) | |
| Commercial | 660 (33.2%) | 3508 (43.4%) | |
| Unknown | 54 (2.7%) | 436 (5.4%) |
(1)
Significance for race was not analyzed due to the large number of unknown classifications.