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. 2021 Dec 2;51(4):529–533. doi: 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2021.11.001

TABLE 3.

Predictors of higher acuity category of imaging findings

Patient characteristics B (95% confidence interval) P value
Age 0.004 (0.001, 0.007) <0.001
Gender Female Reference
Male 0.01 (-0.70, 0.09) 0.77
Race Caucasian or White Reference
African American or Black 0.16 (0.07, 0.25) <0.001
Other 0.09 (-0.09, 0.26) 0.33
Marital status Not married Reference
Married 0.10 (0.02, 0.18) 0.01
Encounter type Inpatient + emergency department Reference
Outpatient -0.61 (-0.70, -0.53) <0.001
Insurance Commercial Reference
Medicare 0.09 (-0.004, 0.18) 0.05
Medicaid or Uninsured 0.33 (0.12, 0.51) 0.001
Year 2019 Reference
2020 0.22 (0.15, 0.30) 0.001

Bolded P values represent statistical significance.