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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2021 Oct 7;73(12):1714–1721. doi: 10.1002/acr.24417

Table 2.

Patients

N = 534
Demographics
Age, Median (IQR) 6.0 (3.0, 12.0)
Sex (male), N (%) 281 (52.6)
Race, N (%)
 White 354 (66.3)
 Black 68 (12.7)
 Asian 17 (3.2)
 Other 95 (17.8)
Medicaid insurance, N (%) 214 (40.1)
Hospital Region, N (%)
 Northeast 92 (17.2)
 Southeast 90 (16.9)
 Southwest 60 (11.2)
 Midwest 156 (29.2)
 West 136 (25.5)
Clinical Features and Medication Exposures
Length of stay in days, Median (IQR) 6.0 (4.0, 9.0)
ICU level of care, N (%) 42 (7.9)
Macrophage activation syndrome*, N (%) 63 (11.8)
Glucocorticoids, N (%) 309 (57.9)
Biologics^, N (%) 156 (29.2)
 Anakinra, N (%) 137 (25.7)
 Canakinumab, N (%) 11 (2.1)
 Tocilizumab, N (%) 20 (3.7)
Methotrexate, N (%) 41 (7.7)
Scheduled NSAIDs, N (%) 452 (84.6)
Readmission ≤ 90 days after discharge#, N (%) 75 (14.0)
*

Based on discharge ICD CM code. Diagnosis of MAS may have occurred at any point during hospitalization.

^

Not mutually exclusive. 9 patients received both canakinumab and anakinra and 3 patients received both anakinra and tocilizumab during hospitalization.

#

All-cause readmissions.