Table 2.
Descriptive statistics by age, gender, race, comorbidities, and preferred language for outcomes of telemedicine calls and test results of telemedicine patients (March 19–April 30, 2020)
| Suspected COVID Diagnosis Code (N = 90 991) |
Test results (N = 5659) |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-COVID (N = 62 083) |
COVID (N = 28 908) |
Difference (95% CI) | COVID neg (N = 3598) |
COVID pos (N = 2061) |
Difference (95% CI) |
|
| Age (mean, SD) | 47.2 (20.2) | 47.4 (17.2) | 0.2 (−0.4–0.1) | 45.9 (17.9) | 48.6 (16.6) | 2.7 (1.8–3.6) |
| Male (%) | 39.4 | 39.0 | −0.4 (−0.3–1.1) | 31.6 | 39.3 | 7.7 (5.1–10.3) |
| Race/ ethnicity (%) | ||||||
| White | 51.8 | 49.5 | −2.3 (−3.0– −1.6) | 45.4 | 36.0 | −9.4 (−12.0– −6.8) |
| Black | 12.6 | 13.4 | 0.8 (0.3–1.2) | 14.3 | 21.0 | 6.7 (4.6–8.8) |
| Latinx | 1.9 | 2.1 | 0.2 (0.1–0.4) | 3.3 | 3.5 | 0.2 (−0.8–1.1) |
| Asian | 5.2 | 5.4 | 0.2 (−0.1–0.1) | 8.6 | 6.5 | −2.1 (−3.5– −0.7) |
| Other | 12.4 | 12.3 | −0.1 (−0.1–0.4) | 15.4 | 20.8 | 5.4 (3.3–7.5) |
| Multiple | 1.8 | 1.6 | −0.2 (−0.3–0.05) | 2.1 | 1.6 | −0.5 (−1.2–0.3) |
| Unknown | 14.3 | 15.6 | 1.3 (0.8–1.8) | 10.9 | 10.6 | −0.3 (−1.9–1.4) |
| Cardiac History (%) | 48.3 | 51.0 | 2.7 (2.1–3.5) | 47.9 | 51.3 | 3.4 (0.7–6.2) |
| Pulmonary History (%) | 18.3 | 21.8 | 3.5 (2.9–4.1) | 23.8 | 20.7 | −3.1 (−5.3– −0.9) |
| Preferred Language (%) | ||||||
| English | 89.6 | 89.9 | 0.3 (−0.1–0.7) | 92.7 | 90.6 | −2.1 (−3.7– −0.6) |
| Spanish | 4.3 | 2.5 | −1.8 (−2.0– −1.6) | 2.6 | 4.9 | 2.3 (1.2–3.3) |
Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; SD, standard deviation.
Note: Differences are in the same units as values in the same row.