Table 3.
Patient Characteristics
| N (%) or Mean (SD) | |
|---|---|
| Demographics | 677 (100%) |
| Age (years) | 55.1 (12.9) |
| Age range | 19.1 −>90 |
| Sex (female) | 312 (46.1%) |
| Race | |
| White | 607 (89.7%) |
| African-American | 51 (7.5%) |
| Asian | 10 (1.5%) |
| Multi-racial | 9 (1.3%) |
| Ethnicity (Hispanic) | 432 (63.8%) |
| BMI | 29.4 (7.1) |
| BMI Range | 13.1 – 54.1 |
| NSQIP Comorbidities | |
| Chronic Steroid Use | 55 (8.1%) |
| Congestive Heart Failure | 5 (0.7%) |
| COPD | 17 (2.5%) |
| Current Smoker | 176 (25.9%) |
| Diabetes-Insulin | 56 (8.3%) |
| Diabetes-Oral Agents | 108 (15.9%) |
| Dialysis | 17 (2.5%) |
| Disseminated Cancer | 60 (8.9%) |
| Dyspnea | 34 (5.0%) |
| Hypertension | 305 (45%) |
| Weight loss | 54 (7.9%) |
| ASA | |
| ASA 1 | 2 (0.3%) |
| ASA 2 | 107 (15.8%) |
| ASA 3 | 483 (71.3%) |
| ASA 4 | 79 (11.7%) |
| ASA 5 | 6 (0.9%) |
| Length of Stay | 10.8 (11.3) |
| Length of Stay range | 1.0 – 106.0 |
| Insurance Status | |
| Carelink | 176 (26.0%) |
| Charity Care | 5 (0.7%) |
| Medicaid | 123 (18.2%) |
| Medicare/Government/Disability | 127 (18.8%) |
| Dual enrollment Medicare/Medicaid | 49 (7.2%) |
| Private | 141 (20.8%) |
| *Self-pay | 56 (8.3%) |
N, number of patients; SD, standard deviation; ASA, American Society of Anesthesiology; BMI, body mass index; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; NSQIP, National Quality Surgical Improvement Program; Weight Loss, weight loss >10% in previous 6 months.
*
Hospital received <1% of charges from 52 patients with the self-pay insurance status