Table 1 Safety-net hospitala and non-safety-net hospital population summary statisticsb
Demographics | Full Sample | SNHc | NSNHd | p-valuee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
(a) | (b) | Difference a & b | ||
Age (years) | ||||
 0–17 | 0.40% | 0.59% | 0.31% | 0.000 |
 18–29 | 0.66% | 1.08% | 0.45% | 0.000 |
 30–49 | 1.91% | 2.88% | 1.43% | 0.000 |
 50–69 | 15.23% | 17.19% | 14.25% | 0.000 |
 70 and over | 81.80% | 78.26% | 83.57% | 0.000 |
Gender | ||||
 Female | 69.63% | 67.55% | 70.67% | 0.000 |
 Male | 30.37% | 32.45% | 29.33% | 0.000 |
Race | ||||
 Black/African American | 4.77% | 9.02% | 2.64% | 0.000 |
 White | 82.64% | 70.18% | 88.86% | 0.000 |
 Other | 12.60% | 20.80% | 8.50% | 0.000 |
Ethnicity | ||||
 Spanish/Hispanic | 4.96% | 9.01% | 2.94% | 0.000 |
 Not Spanish/Hispanic | 91.71% | 85.19% | 94.96% | 0.000 |
 Multiple ethnicities | 0.11% | 0.18% | 0.08% | 0.001 |
 Other/unknown | 3.22% | 5.61% | 2.02% | 0.000 |
Clinical Indicator | ||||
 Length of stay (LOS) (Days) | 6.68 | 7.37 | 6.34 | 0.000 |
Type of Admission | ||||
 Emergency, trauma, urgent | 96.27% | 96.17% | 96.33% | 0.383 |
 Otherf | 3.73% | 3.83% | 3.67% | 0.383 |
APR-DRG severity of Illness | ||||
 Minor | 32.68% | 30.96% | 33.54% | 0.000 |
 Moderate | 42.98% | 43.61% | 42.67% | 0.050 |
 Major | 18.63% | 19.46% | 18.21% | 0.001 |
 Extreme | 5.71% | 5.97% | 5.58% | 0.078 |
APR-DRG risk of mortality | ||||
 Minor | 32.15% | 33.71% | 31.38% | 0.000 |
 Moderate | 40.37% | 39.28% | 40.91% | 0.001 |
 Major | 21.85% | 21.45% | 22.05% | 0.127 |
 Extreme | 5.63% | 5.57% | 5.66% | 0.667 |
Hospital Indicators | ||||
 Safety-net hospital status | ||||
  Yes | 33.32% |  |  |  |
  No | 66.68% |  |  |  |
Health insurance type | ||||
 Commercialg | 7.05% | 6.06% | 7.54% | 0.000 |
 Medicaid | 4.35% | 7.71% | 2.67% | 0.000 |
 Medicare | 68.04% | 54.77% | 74.67% | 0.000 |
 Dual Eligible (Medicaid/Medicare) | 17.01% | 26.22% | 12.40% | 0.000 |
 Self-pay | 0.86% | 1.80% | 0.40% | 0.000 |
 Other/unknownh | 2.69% | 3.43% | 2.32% | 0.000 |
Disposition | ||||
 Expired | 2.53% | 2.47% | 2.56% | 0.548 |
 Homei | 15.72% | 18.21% | 14.48% | 0.000 |
 Inpatient rehabilitation facility | 15.07% | 18.19% | 13.51% | 0.000 |
 Nursing home/long term carej | 0.64% | 0.32% | 0.79% | 0.000 |
 Skilled nursing facility | 61.92% | 56.33% | 64.72% | 0.000 |
 Otherk | 4.12% | 4.48% | 3.94% | 0.004 |
N | 48,948 | 16,310 | 32,638 | Â |