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Table 1 Description of patients dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid used in the validation, in Texas 2011

From: Comparison of methods to identify long term care nursing home residence with administrative data

Patient characteristics

Cohort 1

Cohort 2

Overall

N = 575,472

N = 9,022

Age

  < 65

201,063 (34.94%)

1,923 (21.31%)

  > =65, <75

172,810 (30.03%)

2,360 (26.16%)

  > =75, <85

136,135 (23.66%)

2,818 (31.23%)

  > =85

65,464 (11.38)

1,921 (21.29%)

Race

 White

216,337 (37.59%)

4,287 (47.52%)

 Black

102,160 (17.75%)

1,692 (18.75%)

 Hispanic

194,297 (33.76%)

2,312 (25.62%)

 Others

62,678 (10.98%)

731 (8.10%)

Sex

 Female

364,833 (63.40%)

6,094 (67.55%)

 Male

210,639 (36.60%)

2,928 (32.45%)

Location

 Metropolitan

458,433 (79.70%)

6,867 (76.11%)

 Non-Metropolitan

116, 839 (20.30%)

2,155 (23.89%)

Number of comorbidities

 0,1

172,746 (30.02%)

30 (0.33%)

 2,3

123,579 (21.47%)

226 (2.50%)

 4,5

102,699 (17.85%)

673 (7.46%)

 6,7

97,958 (17.02%)

2,057 (22.80%)

  > =8

78490 (13.64%)

6,036 (66.90%)

Resident in LTC 100 days in 2011

 Yes

46,451 (8.07%)

317 (3.51%)

 No

529,021 (91.93%)

8,705 (96.49%)

  1. LTC long term care