Research Article
Population Based Trends in the Incidence of Hospital Admission for the Diagnosis of Hepatorenal Syndrome: 1998–2011
Table 2
Demographics and characteristics of patients diagnosed with HRS during hospitalization.
| | | Before the change point | After the change point | value |
| | Age, mean (SD), years | 59.26 (13.99) | 58.00 (12.22) | 0.0048 | | Length of stay, mean (SD), days | 7.74 (9.19) | 8.91 (11.37) | <0.0001 | | Race, (%) | | | 0.1480 | | White | 1594 (71.38) | 1163 (72.64) | | | Black | 245 (10.97) | 155 (9.68) | | | Hispanic | 275 (12.32) | 180 (11.24) | | | Asian or Pacific Islander | 45 (2.02) | 28 (1.75) | | | Native American | 21 (0.94) | 26 (1.62) | | | Other | 53 (2.37) | 49 (3.06) | | | Mortality, (%) | | | <0.0001 | | Alive | 1615 (53.89) | 1246 (67.98) | | | Died | 1382 (46.11) | 587 (32.02) | | | Gender, (%) | | | 0.6347 | | Male | 1911 (63.59) | 1180 (64.27) | | | Female | 1094 (36.41) | 656 (35.73) | | | Hospital teaching status, (%) | | | <0.0001 | | Nonteaching | 1677 (56.24) | 878 (48.35) | | | Teaching | 1305 (43.76) | 938 (51.65) | | | Hospital bed size | | | <0.0001 | | Small | 446 (14.96) | 207 (11.40) | | | Medium | 856 (28.71) | 438 (24.12) | | | Large | 1680 (56.34) | 1171 (64.48) | | | Procedures, (%) | | | <0.0001 | | Dialysis | 391 (13.01) | 405 (22.06) | | | Primary payer, (%) | | | 0.7733 | | Medicare | 1198 (39.92) | 706 (38.54) | | | Medicaid | 526 (17.53) | 339 (18.50) | | | Private insurance | 917 (30.56) | 557 (30.40) | | | Self-pay | 221 (7.36) | 134 (7.31) | | | No charge | 20 (0.67) | 17 (0.93) | | | Other | 119 (3.97) | 79 (4.31) | |
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