Table 2:
Health Literacy – REALM-SF Demographic Data
Patients Admitted September 23 - October 20, 2014
| n | % | |
|---|---|---|
| Number of Patients | 1455 | |
| Ethnicity | ||
| Hispanic | 65 | 5% |
| Not Hispanic | 1371 | 94% |
| Other | 19 | 1% |
| Race | ||
| Asian | 12 | 1% |
| Black | 382 | 26% |
| White | 970 | 67% |
| Other | 91 | 6% |
| Gender | ||
| Female | 895 | 62% |
| Male | 560 | 38% |
| Age | ||
| 18–30 | 255 | 18% |
| 31–50 | 333 | 23% |
| 51–70 | 572 | 39% |
| 71 + | 295 | 20% |
| Payer | ||
| Commercial | 238 | 16% |
| Managed Care | 98 | 7% |
| Medicaid & Medicaid HMO | 318 | 22% |
| Medicare & Medicare HMO | 652 | 45% |
| Self Pay | 118 | 8% |
| Other | 31 | 2% |
Abbreviation: REALM-SF, Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine-Short From