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Figures
- Figure 1.
Venn diagram of emergency department (ED) high utilizers by year, 2015 to 2017.
Tables
- Table 1.
Demographic and Medical Characteristics of Emergency Department High Utilizers from 2015 to 2017 Compared to General Family Medicine Outpatient Population of Low Utilizers
Demographic or Characteristic Low <6/yr High ≥6/yr P value Patients, n 18,638 943 Age, mean (±SD) 43.7 (±21.2) 46 (±19.4) <.005* Sex, n (%) Male 7,154 (38.4) 313 (33.2) .002 Female 11,484 (61.6) 630 (66.8) Race, n (%) White 10,215 (54.8) 402 (42.6) <.001** Black 7,121 (38.2) 509 (54.0) Other 1,141 (6.1) 32 (3.4) Ethnicity, n (%) Hispanic 828 (4.4) 35 (3.7) .11 Non-Hispanic 17,806 (95.5) 908 (96.3) Gainesville location, n (%) East 5,808 (31.1) 409 (43.3) <.001** West 6,030 (32.2) 250 (26.5) Other 6,800 (36.5) 284 (30.1) Marital status, n (%) Single 9,594 (51.5) 507 (53.8) <.001** Married 6,371 (34.1) 229 (24.2) Divorced 1,310 (7.0) 118 (12.5) Other 1,154 (6.2) 89 (9.4) Insurance status, n (%) Commercial/third party 8,342 (44.8) 215 (22.8) <.001** Medicare 4,396 (23.6) 296 (31.4) Medicaid 4,466 (24.0) 382 (40.5) Other 1,431 (44.8) 50 (22.8) Chronic pain, n (%) Yes, 1,110 (0.06) 155 (0.16) <.001** No 17,528 (0.94) 788 (0.84) Substance use, n (%) Yes 1,648 (0.09) 210 (0.22) <.001** No 16,990 (0.91) 733 (0.78) Psychiatric condition, n (%) Yes 7,688 (0.41) 613 (0.65) <.001** No 10,950 (0.59) 330 (0.35) Medications, mean (±SE) 7.4 (±0.06) 25.45 (±0.66) <.001** - Table 2.
Demographic and Medical Characteristics of Emergency Department High Utilizers from 2015 to 2017
Demographic or Characteristic 2015 2016 2017 P value 2015 vs 2016 2016 vs 2017 2015 vs 2017 Patients, n 432 428 427 Age, mean (±SD) 46.2 (±18.5) 45.8 (±18.2) 46.1 (±18.8) .78 .84 .94 Sex, n (%) Male 150 (34.7) 142 (33.2) 134 (31.4) .66 .61 .31 Female 282 (65.30) 286 (66.8) 293 (68.6) Race, n (%) White 181 (41.9) 185 (43.2) 165 (38.6) .82 .38 .59 African American 238 (55.1) 228 (53.3) 247 (57.8) Other 13 (3.0) 15 (3.5) 15 (3.5) Ethnicity, n (%) Hispanic 13 (3.0) 13 (3.0) 18 (4.2) 1 .37 .37 Non-Hispanic 419 (97.0) 415 (97.0) 409 (95.8) Home location, n (%) East 209 (48.4) 187 (43.7) 167 (39.1) .36 .13 .014* West 94 (21.8) 97 (22.7) 122 (28.6) Other 129 (29.9) 144 (33.6) 138 (32.3) Marital status, n (%) Single 231 (53.5) 227 (53.0) 227 (53.2) .68 .96 .76 Married 95 (22.0) 107 (25.0) 105 (24.6) Divorced 62 (14.4) 53 (12.4) 57 (13.3) Other 44 (10.2) 41 (9.6) 38 (8.9) Insurance status, n (%) Commercial/third party 85 (19.7) 86 (20.0) 85 (19.9) .87 .6 .39 Medicare 144 (33.3) 133 (31.1) 140 (32.8) Medicaid 178 (41.2) 186 (43.5) 184 (43.1) Other 25 (5.8) 23 (5.4) 18 (4.2) Chronic pain, n (%) Yes 58 (13.4) 75 (17.5) 64 (15.0) .11 .35 .56 No 374 (86.6) 353 (82.5) 363 (85.0) Substance use, n (%) Yes 91 (21.0) 92 (21.5) 90 (21.1) .93 .93 1 No 341 (78.9) 336 (78.5) 337 (78.9) Psychiatric condition Yes 258 (59.7) 258 (60.3) 277 (64.9) .18 .89 .12 No 174 (40.3) 170 (39.7) 150 (35.1) Medications, mean (±SD) 48.8 (±33.5) 51.0 (±34.8) 50.9 (±34.3) .35 .97 .36 ↵* P < .05.
SD, standard deviation.
