Table 3.
Results of Demographic Analysis and Length of Stay From One Institution
| Variable | Year |
P Value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 (N = 270) | 2020 (N = 200) | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Age (years), average (standard deviation) | 56.0 (15.7) | 56.8 (15.1) | 0.5832 |
| Sex, n (%) | |||
| Male | 109 (40.4) | 93 (46.5) | 0.1886 |
| Female | 161 (59.6) | 107 (53.5) | 0.1886 |
| Race, n (%) | |||
| White | 157 (58.1) | 106 (53.0) | 0.3014 |
| Black | 98 (36.3) | 79 (39.5) | 0.5012 |
| Other/unspecified | 15 (5.6) | 15 (7.5) | 0.4472 |
| Number of comorbidities, n (%) | |||
| None | 17 (6.3) | 17 (8.5) | 0.3735 |
| ≥3 | 137 (50.7) | 116 (58.0) | 0.1345 |
| ≥5 | 50 (18.5) | 37 (18.5) | 1.0000 |
| Length of stay | |||
| Median (interquartile range) | 6 (2–12) | 5.5 (2–11) | 0.5317 |
| Patients with length of hospital stay >30 days, n (%) | 9 (3.3) | 14 (7.0) | 0.0839 |
Normally distributed data compared with t tests, proportions compared with Fisher exact tests, and length of stay data compared with Mann-Whitney U test; significance determined with α = 0.05.