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Published in final edited form as: Am J Emerg Med. 2017 Jul 13;36(1):88–92. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2017.07.037

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of participants receiving care in the emergency department (ED), acute care unit (ACU) or both settings (N = 148).

	Overall	Both	ED Only	ACU Only	p Value
Gender
Male	52 (35%)	22 (32%)	29 (39%)	1 (25%)	0.67
Female	96 (65%)	47 (68%)	46 (61%)	3 (75%)
SC type
HbSS	110 (74%)	49 (71%)	59 (79%)	2 (50%)
Hb SC	21 (14%)	10 (14%)	10 (13%)	1 (25%)	0.34
Other (SB+, SBTh, …)	17 (12%)	10 (14%)	6 (8%)	1 (25%)
Race/ethnicity
Race White	2 (1%)	2 (3%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Black	145 (98%)	66 (96%)	75 (100%)	4 (100%)	0.18
Mixed	1 (1%)	1 (1%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Ethnicity Hispanic	5 (3%)	2 (3%)	3 (4%)	0 (0%)	1
Non-Hispanic	143 (97%)	67 (97%)	72 (96%)	4 (100%)
Age, mean (SD)	35.1 (11.9)	34.8 (11.7)	35.0 (12.2)	40.5 (11.0)	0.65