TABLE 1.
Sample Characteristics Across 18 Inpatient Units at a Chicago Academic Health Center: Positive Opioid Misuse Screenings, Positive Substance Misuse Screenings, and Total Screened; Test of Proportions Positive Opioid vs Total Screened Between November, 2017 to March, 2018
| Positive Screenings | Positive Screenings | Total Screenings | |||||
| Opioid Misuse | Substance Misuse | ||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | P < 0.05 | |
| Sex | |||||||
| Female | 52 | 39.7% | 222 | 38.4% | 6262 | 54.6% | 0.001 |
| Male | 79 | 60.3% | 356 | 61.6% | 5216 | 45.4% | 0.001 |
| Race | |||||||
| Black | 72 | 55.0% | 251 | 43.4% | 4097 | 35.7% | 0.000 |
| White | 49 | 37.4% | 246 | 42.6% | 5441 | 47.4% | 0.023 |
| Other | 8 | 6.1% | 72 | 12.5% | 1668 | 14.5% | 0.006 |
| American Indian | 2 | 1.5% | 5 | 0.9% | 38 | 0.3% | 0.020 |
| Asian | 0 | 0.0% | 4 | 0.7% | 218 | 1.9% | 0.112 |
| Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 16 | 0.1% | 0.667 |
| Ethnicity | |||||||
| Hispanic/Latin | 12 | 8.6% | 94 | 16.3% | 1906 | 16.6% | 0.023 |
| Non-Hispanic/non-Latin | 119 | 91.4% | 484 | 83.7% | 9572 | 83.4% | 0.023 |
| Age, yrs | |||||||
| 0–17 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 33 | 0.3% | 0.542 |
| 18–24 | 2 | 1.5% | 33 | 5.7% | 381 | 3.3% | 0.254 |
| 25–44 | 49 | 37.4% | 213 | 36.9% | 2214 | 19.3% | 0.000 |
| 45–64 | 62 | 47.3% | 277 | 47.9% | 4410 | 38.4% | 0.038 |
| 65+ | 18 | 13.7% | 55 | 9.5% | 4440 | 38.7% | 0.000 |
| 131 | 578 | 11478 | |||||