TABLE 2.
Hospital utilization by the control and intervention groups when stratified by sociodemographic variables
| Emergency department visit | Hospital admission | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control group | Intervention group | Control group | Intervention group | ||||||||
| Variable b | N | % a | N | % a | N | p‐Value | N | % a | N | % a | p‐Value |
| Age (years) | <30 | 4 | 16.0% | 0 | 0.0% | .040 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | NA |
| 30–39 | 0 | 0.0% | 2 | 6.5% | .514 | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 3.2% | 1.000 | |
| 40–49 | 9 | 20.5% | 4 | 12.1% | .376 | 2 | 4.5% | 1 | 3.0% | 1.000 | |
| 50–59 | 3 | 9.1% | 2 | 14.3% | .627 | 1 | 3.0% | 1 | 7.1% | .512 | |
| 60–69 | 6 | 23.1% | 1 | 5.3% | .211 | 6 | 23.1% | 0 | 0.0% | .032 | |
| 70–79 | 2 | 40.0% | 1 | 25.0% | 1.000 | 1 | 20.0% | 1 | 25.0% | 1.000 | |
| ≥80 | 0 | 0.0% | 3 | 33.3% | 1.000 | 0 | 0.0% | 2 | 22.2% | 1.000 | |
| Gender | Male | 11 | 15.5% | 3 | 5.1% | .086 | 5 | 7.0% | 1 | 1.7% | .220 |
| Female | 13 | 15.7% | 10 | 12.5% | .655 | 5 | 6.0% | 5 | 6.3% | 1.000 | |
| Smoking | Yes | 1 | 8.3% | 0 | 0.0% | .480 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | NA |
| No | 22 | 17.5% | 13 | 12.0% | .274 | 10 | 7.9% | 6 | 5.6% | .606 | |
| Race | White | 21 | 16.4% | 12 | 11.4% | .346 | 8 | 6.3% | 6 | 5.7% | 1.000 |
| Black | 1 | 5.9% | 1 | 4.8% | 1.000 | 1 | 5.9% | 0 | 0.0% | .447 | |
| Other | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | NA | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | NA | |
| Ethnicity | Hispanic | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | NA | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | NA |
| Non‐Hispanic | 24 | 15.6% | 13 | 9.4% | .276 | 9 | 6.3% | 6 | 4.7% | .607 | |
| BMI | Underweight (<18.5) | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | NA | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | NA |
| Normal (18.5–24.9) | 3 | 10.0% | 4 | 19.0% | .427 | 0 | 0.0% | 2 | 9.5% | .165 | |
| Overweight (25–29.9) | 7 | 25.9% | 4 | 10.0% | .103 | 4 | 14.8% | 2 | 5.0% | .211 | |
| Obese (≥30) | 14 | 16.7% | 5 | 7.9% | .141 | 6 | 7.1% | 2 | 3.2% | .467 | |
| Total | 24 | 15.6% | 13 | 10.1% | .117 | 10 | 6.5% | 6 | 4.3% | .452 | |
a
Percentages for Emergency Department Visit and Hospital Admission are the percent in each subgroup out of all patients in that subgroup.
b
Smoking, Race, BMI, and Ethnicity each had missing cases.