Table 2.

Characteristics of hospitalization episodes with a diagnosis of TB, United States, 2014 (Source:¹⁴)

	Episodes principally for TB %	Episodes with TB as secondary diagnoses %
Number of hospitalization episodes	4 920*	5 890†
Patient characteristics
Female sex	34.1	38.4
Race/ethnicity
White	18.2	30.9
Black	20.4	23.9
Hispanic	27.0	20.8
Asian or Pacific Islander	19.5	14.7
Native American	1.7	0.7
Other	8.8	5.9
Missing/invalid	4.5	3.1
Age, years
<15	4.6	1.8
15–44	38.4	25.0
⩾45	57.0	73.2
Insurance
Private	20.9	16.7
Medicare	22.6	35.0
Medicaid	33.6	31.8
Other government	5.3	3.3
Uninsured	17.7	13.2
Median household income, US$
1–39 999	34.7	36.3
40 000–50 999	26.8	23.9
51 000–65 999	18.4	19.3
⩾66 000	16.4	15.7
Missing/invalid	3.7	4.8
Urban-rural identifier
Central counties in metro areas of >1 million population	53.6	47.3
Fringe counties in metro areas of >1 million population	17.5	18.6
Counties in metro areas of 250 000–999 999 population	16.3	17.4
Counties in metro areas of 50 000–249 999 population	4.8	6.5
Micropolitan counties	4.5	5.0
Not metropolitan or micropolitan counties	2.2	2.6
Missing/invalid	1.1	2.6
Clinical elements
Proportion who died during hospitalization	2.1	7.1
Average number of chronic conditions on a record	3.5	5.6
Average number of procedures on a record	1.7	2.3
Mean length of stay, days	15.6	10.9
Proportion with major operating room procedure on a record	20.1	22.2
Hospital characteristics
Ownership
Government, non-federal	27.2	20.8
Private, not-profit	58.2	65.3
Private, invest-own	14.6	13.9
Size
Small	16.0	16.4
Medium	27.2	27.3
Large	56.8	56.3
Census region
Northeast	19.1	17.8
Midwest	11.7	13.6
South	39.5	40.0
West	29.7	28.6

^*Excludes 65 observations with the cost of hospitalization missing.

^†Excludes 190 observations with the cost of hospitalization missing and 435 observations with TB noted as both principal and any secondary diagnoses (classified as TB-PD in this study).

TB = tuberculosis; TB-PD = TB principal diagnosis.