Pediatric non-urgent emergency department visits and prior care-seeking at primary care

Table 1 Respondent sociodemographic characteristics and care-seeking from their child’s PCP prior to their child’s ED visit

	All Respondents	Sought care from PCP before ED		P-value
	All Respondents	Yes	No
	n (%)	n (row %)	n (row %)
Respondents	140	64	76
Caregiver Age				0.21
< 25 Years	32 (23%)	12 (38%)	20 (62%)
≥ 25 Years	106 (76%)	50 (47%)	56 (53%)
Missing	2 (1%)	2 (100%)	0 (0%)
Caregiver Race				<.001*
White	71 (51%)	44 (62%)	27 (38%)
Black or African-American	41 (29%)	10 (24%)	31 (76%)
Other	12 (9%)	6 (50%)	6 (50%)
Prefer Not to Say/Missing	16 (11%)	4 (25%)	12 (75%)
Caregiver Ethnicity				0.11
Hispanic or Latino	6 (4%)	4 (67%)	2 (33%)
Not Hispanic or Latino	112 (80%)	54 (48%)	58 (52%)
Prefer Not to Say/Missing	22 (16%)	6 (27%)	16 (73%)
Caregiver Educational Level				.001*
High School/GED or Less	43 (31%)	10 (23%)	33 (77%)
Some College	39 (28%)	18 (46%)	21 (54%)
Completed College/Post-college	56 (40%)	34 (61%)	22 (39%)
Missing	2 (1%)	2 (100%)	0 (0%)
Child Insurance				.004*
Commercial/Employer Based	40 (29%)	27 (68%)	13 (32%)
Medicaid or CHIP	87 (62%)	31 (36%)	56 (64%)
No insurance/Other/Missing	13 (9%)	6 (46%)	7 (54%)
Child Age				0.25
0–1 Years	25 (18%)	14 (56%)	11 (44%)
≥ 1 Years	115 (82%)	50 (43%)	65 (57%)
Number of Household Children				0.68
1 Child	43 (31%)	18 (42%)	25 (58%)
≥ 1 Child	94 (67%)	44 (47%)	50 (53%)
Missing	3 (2%)	2 (67%)	1 (33%)

Legend: Unadjusted analysis examining association between sociodemographic characteristics and having sought care from their child’s PCP office prior to their child’s ED visits, using chi-square or Fischer’s exact test. PCP Primary care provider, ED Emergency department
* = Statistically significant difference (α = .05)

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