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Table 1 Patient Demographic and Clinical Characteristics, by Community Socioeconomic Disadvantage; Florida and New York, 2012-2015

From: Community socioeconomic disadvantage drives type of 30-day medical-surgical revisits among patients with serious mental illness

 

All patients

Least Disadvantaged

Middle 45% Disadvantaged

Top 5% Disadvantaged

p-value

Demographics

N= 1,915,039

n=958,196

n=865,655

n=91,188

 

Age (mean, SD)

57.7, 17.1

58.5, 17.5

57.2, 16.8

53.7, 16.1

<0.001

Age (N, %)

    

<0.001

 18-44

421,194, 22.0%

203,676, 21.3%

192,651, 22.3%

24,867, 27.3%

 

 45-64

802,649, 41.9%

385,388, 40.2%

373,659, 43.1%

43,602, 47.8%

 

 65+

691,196, 36.1%

369,132, 38.5%

299,345, 34.6%

22,719, 24.9%

 

Female (N, %)

987,148, 51.6%

481,688, 50.3%

457,694, 52.9%

47,766, 52.4%

<0.001

Primary Payer (N, %)

    

<0.001

 Medicare

867,429, 45.3%

430,697, 45.0%

401,793, 46.4%

34,939, 38.3%

 

 Medicaid

341,919, 17.9%

156,762, 16.4%

154,258, 17.8%

30,899, 33.9%

 

 Private

460,920, 24.1%

270,892, 28.3%

177,315, 20.5%

12,713, 13.9%

 

 Self-Pay

140,339, 7.3%

56,227, 5.9%

76,614, 8.9%

7,498, 8.2%

 

 No Charge

30,713, 1.6%

10,220, 1.1%

18,750, 2.2%

1,743, 1.9%

 

  Other

73,719, 3.9%

33,398, 3.5%

36,925, 4.3%

3,396, 3.7%

 

Clinical Characteristics

Length of Stay, days (mean, SD)

4.8, 5.1

4.8, 5.0

4.7, 5.0

5.2, 6.3

<0.001

Admission Type (N, %)

    

<0.001

 Emergency

1,439,740, 75.2%

720,846, 75.3%

646,159, 74.7%

72,735, 79.8%

 

 Urgent

152,640, 8.0%

68,358, 7.1%

79,382, 9.2%

4,900, 5.4%

 

 Elective

311,958, 16.3%

164,786, 17.2%

134,218, 15.5%

12,954, 14.21

 

 Trauma Center

10,281, 0.5%

3,954, 0.4%

5,757, 0.7%

570, 0.6%

 

Surgical admission (N, %)

958,196, 50%

274,237, 28.62%

233,221, 26.9%

21,163, 23.21%

<0.001

Elixhauser comorbidity readmission risk score (mean, SD)

12.5, 11.7

11.9, 11.5

13.1, 11.9

14.5, 12.5

<0.001

  1. Note: SD Standard Deviation