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Table 2 Demographic characteristics for the commercial and Medicare data sets, stratified by complexity

From: Identifying and characterizing COPD patients in US managed care. A retrospective, cross-sectional analysis of administrative claims data

 

Commercial dataset

Medicare dataset

 

All patients

Low complexity

Moderate complexity

High complexity

All patients

Low complexity

Moderate complexity

High complexity

 

(n = 42,565)

(n = 19,154; 45.0%)

(n = 14,290; 33.6%)

(n = 9,121; 21.4%)

(n = 8,507)

(n = 3,110; 36.6%)

(n = 3,047; 35.8%)

(n = 2,350; 27.6%)

Parameter

        

Age, years

        

   Median

56

56

57

57

75

75

75

75

Age categories, n (% of column)

   40-44 years

2,960 (7.0)

1,471 (7.68)

917 (6.42)

572 (6.27)

15 (0.2)

2 (0.1)

10 (0.3)

3 (0.1)

   45-54 years

14,432 (33.9)

6,704 (35.0)

4,817 (33.7)

2,911 (31.9)

125 (1.5)

40 (1.3)

41 (1.3)

44 (1.9)

   55-64 years

25,173 (59.1)

10,979 (57.3)

8,556 (59.9)

5,638 (61.8)

460 (5.4)

134 (4.3)

171 (5.6)

155 (6.6)

   65-74 years

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

3,367 (39.6)

1,295 (41.6)

1,176 (38.6)

896 (38.1)

   75-84 years

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

3,625 (42.6)

1,324 (42.6)

1,296 (42.5)

1,005 (42.8)

   ≥85 years

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

915 (10.8)

315 (10.1)

353 (11.6)

247 (10.5)

Gender (%, of column)

   Female

51.4

49.2

54.7

50.7

53.1

53.6

54.2

51.2