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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Toxicol (Phila). 2021 Dec 22;60(5):585–595. doi: 10.1080/15563650.2021.2012576

Table 3.

Demographics for all ED patients with THC IA testing at BWH and MGH.

Category Demographic DEC MED BD MED DISP REC BD REC DISP p Value
BWH gender Male, N (%) 2270 (54.5%) 6828 (53.7%) 4109 (53.6%) 2885 (53.8%) 2206 (52.7%) .323
BWH age Age, median (IQR) 46 (25) 47 (26) 47 (30) 49 (31) 49 (31) .0001
BWH race White, N (%) 4448 (58.0%) 3146 (58.7%) 2431 (58.0%) .751
Black, N (%) 1768 (23.1%) 1159 (21.6%) 965 (23.0%) .108
Asian, N (%) 153 (2.0%) 137 (2.6%) 100 (2.4%) .091
American Indian, N (%) 21 (0.3%) 29 (0.5%) 13 (0.3%) .037
Native Hawaiian, N (%) 5 (0.07%) 3 (0.06%) 1 (0.02%) .635
Other, N (%) 671 (8.8%) 482 (9.0%) 384 (9.2%) .745
Unavailable, N (%) 597 (7.8%) 408 (7.6%) 296 (7.1%) .355
BWH ethnicity Not Hispanic, N (%) 6064 (79.1%) 4357 (81.2%) 3382 (80.7%) .008
Hispanic, N (%) 1195 (15.6%) 797 (14.9%) 653 (15.6%) .467
Unavailable, N (%) 404 (5.3%) 210 (3.9%) 155 (3.7%) <.0001
MGH gender Male, N (%) 3798 (58.8%) 12,342 (59.3%) 11,781 (60.1%) 8550 (59.4%) 7363 (59.5%) .347
MGH age Age, median (IQR) 40 (27) 39 (27) 40 (28) 42 (28) 42 (28) .0001
MGH race White, N (%) 9656 (72.3%) 10,367 (72.0%) 8827 (71.3%) .181
Black, N (%) 1427 (10.7%) 1566 (10.9%) 1399 (11.3%) .274
Asian, N (%) 407 (3.1%) 431 (3.0%) 366 (3.0%) .912
American Indian, N (%) 52 (0.4%) 35 (0.2%) 49 (0.4%) .048
Native Hawaiian, N (%) 6 (0.04%) 9 (0.06%) 6 (0.05%) .793
Other, N (%) 886 (6.6%) 1182 (8.2%) 1075 (8.7%) <.0001
Unavailable, N (%) 924 (6.9%) 800 (5.6%) 660 (5.3%) <.0001
MGH ethnicity Not Hispanic, N (%) 11,268 (84.4%) 12,073 (83.9%) 10,258 (82.9%) .004
Hispanic, N (%) 1551 (11.6%) 1743 (12.1%) 1550 (12.5%) .081
Unavailable, N (%) 539 (4.0%) 574 (4.0%) 574 (4.6%) .016

The bolded values are those with significant p values <0.05.