Table 3.
Characteristics of patients with COVID-19 who received AH-HaH care, stratified by age group
| Age < 65 | Age ≥ 65 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Care escalation within 14 days | p-value | Care escalation within 14 days | p-value | |||
| No | Yes | No | Yes | |||
| All | 1238 (84.9) | 220 (15.1) | 448 (79.2) | 118 (20.8) | ||
| Race/ethnicity, n (%) | 0.343 | 0.642 | ||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 563 (45.5) | 101 (45.9) | 313 (69.9) | 82 (69.5) | ||
| Non-Hispanic Black | 437 (35.3) | 67 (30.5) | 90 (20.1) | 26 (22.0) | ||
| Hispanic | 164 (13.2) | 37 (16.8) | 22 (4.9) | 7 (5.9) | ||
| Other or not report | 74 (6.0) | 15 (6.8) | 23 (5.1) | 3 (2.5) | ||
| Female, n (%) | 618 (49.9) | 99 (45.0) | 0.188 | 229 (51.1) | 60 (50.8) | 1.000 |
| Married, n (%) | 689 (55.7) | 118 (53.6) | 0.607 | 282 (62.9) | 72 (61.0) | 0.749 |
| Body mass index, n (%) | 0.758 | 0.594 | ||||
| Not obese | 371 (30.0) | 62 (28.2) | 253 (56.5) | 67 (56.8) | ||
| Obesity Class I | 389 (31.4) | 66 (30.0) | 101 (22.5) | 27 (22.9) | ||
| Obesity Class II | 208 (16.8) | 43 (19.5) | 54 (12.1) | 10 (8.5) | ||
| Obesity Class III | 270 (21.8) | 49 (22.3) | 40 (8.9) | 14 (11.9) | ||
| Charlson Comorbidity Index, n (%) | 0.092 | 0.022 | ||||
| 0 | 606 (48.9) | 100 (45.5) | 126 (28.1) | 34 (28.8) | ||
| 1–2 | 480 (38.8) | 81 (36.8) | 169 (37.7) | 29 (24.6) | ||
| 3–4 | 93 (7.5) | 28 (12.7) | 83 (18.5) | 26 (22.0) | ||
| ≥ 5 | 59 (4.8) | 11 (5.0) | 70 (15.6) | 29 (24.6) | ||
| Area Deprivation Index, n (%) | 0.230 | 0.062 | ||||
| Quartile 1 | 298 (24.1) | 48 (21.8) | 134 (29.9) | 23 (19.5) | ||
| Quartile 2 | 344 (27.8) | 50 (22.7) | 113 (25.2) | 27 (22.9) | ||
| Quartile 3 | 270 (21.8) | 57 (25.9) | 102 (22.8) | 36 (30.5) | ||
| Quartile 4 | 326 (26.3) | 65 (29.5) | 99 (22.1) | 32 (27.1) | ||
| Total minutes travel to the closest hospital, median [IQR] | 15.5 [11.5, 21.6] | 15.5 [11.6, 21.8] | 0.697 | 16.2 [12.2, 21.8] | 15.5 [11.6, 21.4] | 0.322 |
| Most recent O2 saturation, median [IQR] | 96 [94, 98] | 96 [94, 97] | 0.720 | 95 [94, 97] | 96 [94, 97] | 0.792 |
| Baseline healthcare utilization*, median [IQR] | ||||||
| Inpatient visits | 0 [0, 0] | 0 [0, 0] | 0.302 | 0 [0, 0] | 0 [0, 0] | 0.128 |
| Outpatient visits | 0 [0, 1] | 0 [0, 2] | 0.143 | 1 [0, 3] | 1 [0, 4] | 0.365 |
| Emergency department visits | 0 [0, 1] | 1 [0, 1] | 0.168 | 0 [0, 1] | 0.5 [0, 1] | 0.041 |
Abbreviation: IQR, interquartile range
*Baseline healthcare utilization includes all visits within 1 year prior to the index date