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Table 1 Patient Characteristics

From: Use of the emergency department for less-urgent care among type 2 diabetics under a disease management program

Source

 

Clinic Visits

Less-urgent ED visits

  

N = 119,695

N = 16,249

  

freq

%

freq

%

Health

Commercial

5580

4.66%

1425

8.77%

plan

Medicaid

10143

8.47%

1737

10.69%

 

Medicare

20192

16.87%

2136

13.15%

 

Missing

307

0.26%

116

0.71%

 

Uninsured

83473

69.74%

10835

66.68%

CCI

0

79829

66.69%

11634

71.60%

 

1

22432

18.7%

2957

18.20%

 

2

11584

9.68%

1138

7.00%

 

3

3584

2.99%

303

1.86%

 

4+

2266

1.89%

217

1.34%

Hospitalization

24061

20.10%

3088

19.00%

  1. CCI: Charlson Comorbidity Index