Table 1 General characteristics of study population
Frequency | % | |
|---|---|---|
(N = 5980) | ||
Age (years) | ||
16–64 | 5062 | 84.6 |
≥ 65 | 918 | 15.4 |
Gender | ||
Not known/not recorded | 3 | 0.0 |
Female | 1327 | 22.2 |
Male | 4650 | 77.8 |
Race | ||
Not known/not recorded | 270 | 4.5 |
American Indian | 36 | 0.6 |
Asian | 96 | 1.6 |
Black or African American | 1876 | 31.4 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 18 | 0.3 |
White | 3292 | 55.1 |
Other race | 392 | 6.6 |
Hospital teaching status | ||
Community | 2329 | 38.9 |
Non-teaching | 801 | 13.4 |
University | 2850 | 47.7 |
Trauma designation level | ||
I | 3316 | 55.5 |
II | 1892 | 31.6 |
III | 580 | 9.7 |
IV | 44 | 0.7 |
Not applicable | 148 | 2.5 |
Geographic region for the hospital | ||
NORTHEAST | 826 | 13.8 |
MIDWEST | 1179 | 19.7 |
SOUTH | 2800 | 46.8 |
WEST | 1129 | 18.9 |
NA | 46 | 0.8 |
The patient’s primary method of payment | ||
Not known/not recorded | 402 | 6.7 |
Medicaid | 728 | 12.2 |
Medicare | 655 | 11.0 |
Not billed (for any reason) | 61 | 1.0 |
Private/commercial insurance | 1512 | 25.3 |
Self-pay | 2302 | 38.5 |
Other government | 119 | 2.0 |
Other | 201 | 3.4 |
Mode of transportation | ||
Not known/not recorded | 18 | 0.3 |
Ground ambulance | 5017 | 83.9 |
Helicopter ambulance | 517 | 8.6 |
Fixed-wing ambulance | 6 | 0.1 |
Police | 79 | 1.3 |
Public/private vehicle walk-in | 278 | 4.6 |
Other | 65 | 1.1 |