Table 2.

Characteristics of Elderly Patients Admitted to the Hospital Following Injury^a

		Massachusetts		New York
Variable	Patients	Before 2006	After 2006	Before 2006	After 2006
Total, No.	704 189	90 306	116 683	205 974	291 226
Age, mean (median), y	81.56 (82)	81.67 (82)	81.91 (83)	81.25 (82)	81.59 (82)
Uninsured, %	0.53	0.70	0.33	0.54	0.56
Insurance type
Medicare	89.00	90.59	90.72	87.60	88.75
Medicaid	1.02	0.32	0.50	1.73	1.01
Private	8.40	7.63	7.56	9.23	8.37
Self pay	0.50	0.58	0.30	0.53	0.54
No charge	0.03	0.13	0.03	0.01	0.02
Other	1.06	0.76	0.88	0.91	1.31
Race, %
White	90.80	97.64	96.49	90.28	86.86
Black	4.88	1.50	1.76	5.69	6.60
Hispanic	4.31	0.86	1.74	4.03	6.54
Mechanism, %
Blunt trauma	59.64	58.17	57.23	63.36	58.76
Gunshot	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02
Gunshot, self-inflicted	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02
Low fall	35.87	37.53	39.35	31.36	36.87
Motor vehicle crash	2.95	3.02	2.33	3.51	2.77
Injury to pedestrian	1.02	0.8	0.60	1.26	1.07
Stabbing	0.09	0.08	0.07	0.09	0.08
Laceration	0.40	0.39	0.40	0.39	0.41
Shock, %	0.13	0.07	0.20	0.08	0.15
Hospital stay, mean (median), d
Survivors	6.69 (5)	5.66 (4)	5.05 (4)	7.73 (6)	6.90 (5)
Nonsurvivors	10.60 (6)	8.08 (5)	7.03 (5)	12.39 (8)	11.16 (7)
Mortality, %	4.02	3.69	3.55	4.50	3.98

^aDefined as older than 64 years.