Table 1.
Characteristics of Younger Patients Admitted to the Hospital Following Injurya
| Massachusetts |
New York |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Patients | Before 2006 | After 2006 | Before 2006 | After 2006 |
| Total, No. | 581 067 | 63 528 | 82 647 | 184 182 | 250 710 |
| Age, mean (median), y | 41.3 (43) | 41.2 (43) | 43.2 (46) | 40.1 (41) | 41.6 (44) |
| Uninsured, % | 12.1 | 15.2 | 7.7 | 12.7 | 12.1 |
| Insurance type, % | |||||
| Medicare | 10.1 | 11.5 | 14.6 | 7.9 | 10.0 |
| Medicaid | 22.2 | 13.6 | 17.5 | 22.3 | 25.7 |
| Private | 47.1 | 51.5 | 48.9 | 48.4 | 44.6 |
| Self pay | 10.4 | 7.9 | 3.3 | 12.4 | 11.8 |
| No charge | 1.7 | 7.6 | 4.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Other | 8.6 | 8.0 | 8.6 | 8.8 | 7.7 |
| Race, % | |||||
| White | 67.3 | 83.1 | 81.2 | 63.9 | 61.5 |
| Black | 19.0 | 8.4 | 9.0 | 22.5 | 22.4 |
| Hispanic | 13.7 | 8.4 | 9.8 | 13.6 | 16.2 |
| Mechanism, % | |||||
| Blunt trauma | 56.4 | 53.2 | 55.9 | 56.2 | 57.8 |
| Gunshot | 2.4 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 2.8 | 2.5 |
| Gunshot, self-inflicted | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Low fall | 14.0 | 15.6 | 17.6 | 11.8 | 14.3 |
| Motor vehicle crash | 12.0 | 15.0 | 10.9 | 13.5 | 10.4 |
| Injury to pedestrian | 6.7 | 6.1 | 5.8 | 7.0 | 6.9 |
| Stabbing | 3.9 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 4.5 | 3.8 |
| Laceration | 4.4 | 5.2 | 4.9 | 4.0 | 4.2 |
| Shock, % | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.6 |
| Hospital stay, mean (median), d | |||||
| Survivors | 5.6 (3) | 5.1 (3) | 4.6 (3) | 5.8 (3) | 5.8 (3) |
| Nonsurvivors | 9.4 (3) | 6.7 (2) | 6.3 (3) | 9.9 (3) | 10.7 (4) |
| Mortality, % | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.3 |
a
Defined as older than 15 and younger than 65 years.