Table 1.

Patient characteristics for hospital visits for Illinois residents coded as opioid overdose, abuse, dependence, or use, 214 Illinois hospitals, 1/2016–6/2019

	All opioid visits* n = 239,049	Percent opioid overdose n = 46,546	Percent opioid abuse n = 59,943	Percent opioid dependence n = 115,767	Percent opioid use n = 16,793
Year
2016	28.9	24.9	29.2	30.4	28.4
2017	29.8	30.0	29.3	29.8	30.7
2018	28.0	30.3	28.4	26.8	28.2
2019	13.3	14.7	13.0	12.9	12.7
Sex
Male	62.2	65.8	65.8	59.50	57.7
Race/ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White	45.5	50.5	39.4	46.1	49.5
Non-Hispanic Black	37.2	31.6	42.9	36.5	37.6
Hispanic	7.8	7.8	8.4	7.6	6.2
Asian	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.4
Unknown or Other	9.2	9.7	9.1	9.5	6.3
Age group
< 20	1.6	2.9	1.5	1.0	1.8
20–44	46.0	48.9	45.4	45.1	45.9
45–64	45.3	40.2	47.2	46.6	43.5
65 +	7.2	8.0	5.9	7.3	8.8
Insurance
Private	21.0	19.8	19.4	22.7	19.0
Medicaid	52.2	48.4	56.2	51.6	52.2
Medicare Age 65	5.4	21.7	17.8	51.4	9.0
Medicare Disability	11.3	20.1	14.8	57.6	7.4
Uninsured	8.7	16.2	10.2	4.9	8.6
Unknown or Other	1.4	1.0	1.2	1.7	1.4
Illinois county area
Cook County	60.2	32.3	20.2	22.3	32.1
DuPage, Kane, Will, Lake, McHenry	15.4	52.0	66.8	61.1	53.7
Other “Downstate” Counties	24.4	15.7	13.1	16.7	14.2
Weekend visit	25.3	28.8	26.5	23.2	25.5
Rural/small metro county	11.3	26.2	21.0	42.9	10.0
Zip code tabulation area percent poor
< 5%	15.1	15.6	12.6	16.3	14.6
5–9.99%	21.6	23.1	19.0	22.3	21.1
10–19.99%	28.0	30.1	27.4	27.0	31.7
> 20%	35.3	31.1	41.0	34.3	32.7
Not Illinois Resident	3.0	23.5	26.3	42.7	7.6
Visit type
Outpatient ED visits	44.9	73.5	55.0	27.2	51.8
Direct admission	23.7	3.5	12.5	38.2	18.9
ED admission	31.4	23.1	32.5	34.5	29.4
Died	0.7	1.4	0.8	0.4	0.6

*All comparisons p < 0.001