Table 1 Demographic and clinical factors of hospitalizations with at least one request for outside information
From: A user needs assessment to inform health information exchange design and implementation
|  | No. (%) N = 2091 |
|---|---|
Female | 1061 (50.7) |
Language preference | |
 English | 1949 (93.2) |
 Spanish | 95 (4.5) |
 Unknown/Other | 47 (2.3) |
Marital status | |
 Single | 1361 (65.1) |
 Married | 652 (31.2) |
 Unknown/Other | 78 (3.7) |
Primary care provider | 1235 (59.1) |
Payer class | |
 Commercial | 627 (30) |
 Medicare | 817 (39.1) |
 Medicaid | 465 (22.2) |
 HCHCP | 137 (6.6) |
 Other | 45 (2.1) |
Admission source | |
 Emergency room | 1921 (91.9) |
 Physician-referral | 84 (4) |
 Outside hospital | 84 (4) |
 Other | 2 (0.1) |
| Â | Mean (SD) |
Age | 53.5 (17.3) |
Length of stay | 6.7 (10) |