Table 1 Baseline demographics, admission type and comorbidity index of patients with HRF
Variables | Overall | Patient Group | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Younger than 17 | 17 and Above | |||||
N | % | N | % | N | % | |
All | 1,818 | 130 | 1,688 | |||
Female | 707 | 38.9% | 49 | 37.7% | 658 | 39.0% |
Age (mean (standard deviation)) | 46.9 (19.6) | 10.6 (4.2) | 49.7 (17.4) | |||
Age category | ||||||
Less than 17 | 130 | 7.2% | 130 | 100.0% | ||
17 to 25 | 176 | 9.7% | 176 | 10.4% | ||
26 to 45 | 513 | 28.2% | 513 | 30.4% | ||
46 to 64 | 661 | 36.4% | 661 | 39.2% | ||
65 and Above | 338 | 18.6% | 338 | 20.0% | ||
Race | ||||||
Black | 286 | 15.7% | 40 | 30.8% | 246 | 14.6% |
White | 1,227 | 67.5% | 65 | 50.0% | 1,162 | 68.8% |
Hispanic | 35 | 1.9% | 3 | 2.3% | 32 | 1.9% |
Other or Unavailable | 270 | 14.9% | 22 | 16.9% | 248 | 14.7% |
Payer | ||||||
Commercial | 727 | 40.0% | 65 | 50.0% | 662 | 39.2% |
Medicaid | 304 | 16.7% | 47 | 36.2% | 257 | 15.2% |
Medicare | 418 | 23.0% | 1 | 0.8% | 417 | 24.7% |
Other | 369 | 20.3% | 17 | 13.1% | 352 | 20.9% |
Admission | ||||||
Emergency or Urgent Care | 917 | 50.4% | 28 | 21.5% | 889 | 52.7% |
Trauma Center | 202 | 11.1% | 3 | 2.3% | 199 | 11.8% |
Etiology | ||||||
Congenital deformity without fractures | 75 | 4.1% | 75 | 57.7% | ||
Congenital deformity with fracture or sequelas from prior fracture | 4 | 0.2% | 4 | 3.1% | ||
Deep Infection without nonunion | 122 | 6.7% | 1 | 0.8% | 121 | 7.2% |
Deep infection with non-union | 52 | 2.9% | 1 | 0.8% | 51 | 3.0% |
Fracture | 1,319 | 72.6% | 44 | 33.8% | 1,275 | 75.5% |
Non-Union | 76 | 4.2% | 3 | 2.3% | 73 | 4.3% |
Other Sequelas from Prior Fractures | 26 | 1.4% | 2 | 1.5% | 24 | 1.4% |
Acquired Deformity | 107 | 5.9% | 107 | 6.3% | ||
Arthrosis | 37 | 2.0% | 37 | 2.2% | ||
Average Elixhauser Score (mean (standard deviation)) | 1.90 (2.16) | 0.45 (0.84) | 2.02 (2.19) | |||