EMS utilization predictors in a Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) program

Pinet-Peralta, Luis M.; Glos, Lukas J.; Sanna, Evan; Frankel, Brian; Lindqvist, Ernest

doi:10.1186/s12911-021-01409-w

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Table 1 Demographic, insurance and medical characteristics of MIH patients

From: EMS utilization predictors in a Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) program

	All (n = 110)			HF group (n = 45)			LF group (n = 65)			P^d
	N	%	μ	N	%	μ	N	%	μ	P^d
Sociodemographic
Age (years)
19–33	12	10.9	60.3	5	11.1	58.2	7	10.8	61.8	0.538
34–48	14	12.7		5	11.1		9	13.8
49–64	35	31.8		18	40.0		17	26.2
65–78	34	30.9		13	28.9		21	32.3
79+	15	13.6		4	8.9		11	16.9
Race/ethnicity
White	26	23.6		9	20.0		17	26.2		0.613
Asian	1	0.9		1	2.2		0	0.0
Blacks	81	73.6		34	75.6		47	72.3
Hispanic	2	1.8		1	2.2		1	1.5
Sex
Male	56	50.9		19	42.2		37	56.9		0.929
Female	54	49.1		26	57.8		28	43.1
Marital status
Single	69	67.6		28	66.7		41	68.3		0.873
Married	25	24.5		12	28.6		13	21.7
Divorced	5	4.9		1	2.4		4	6.7
Widowed	3	2.9		1	2.4		2	3.3
Persons living in residence			2.2			2.2			2.2	0.236
Means of first contact
Door knock/cold call	1	0.9		1	2.3		0	0.0		0.482
Hospital visit	5	4.5		2	4.5		3	4.6
Phone call	104	94.5		42	95.5		62	95.4
Assessments and medications
Fall risk score (n = 87)^a
Low	64	73.6	2.5	28	71.8	2.8	36	75.0	2.4	0.645
High	23	26.4		11	28.2		12	25.0
Compliance with medications
Never	10	9.1		6	13.3		4	6.2		0.171
Sometimes	35	31.8		17	37.8		18	27.7
Always	65	59.1		22	48.9		43	66.2
Number of medications^b
1–3	12	11.9	12.3	5	11.1	12.1	7	12.1	12.5	0.973
4–6	8	7.9		4	9.3		4	6.9
7–9	4	4.0		1	2.3		3	5.2
10–12	20	19.8		10	23.3		10	17.2
13–15	18	17.8		7	16.3		11	19.0
16–18	34	33.7		14	32.6		20	34.5
19+	5	5.0		2	4.7		3	5.2
Insurance/access
Has a PCP
Yes	102	92.7		42	93.3		60	92.3		0.839
No	8	7.3		3	6.7		5	7.7
Has insurance
Yes	110	100.0		45	100.0		65	100.0
No	0	0.0		0	0.0		0	0.0
Dual eligible?
Yes	18	16.4		10	22.2		8	12.3		0.167
No	92	83.6		35	77.8		57	87.7
Primary insurance
Private	14	12.7		4	8.9		10	15.4		0.439
Medicaid	35	31.8		17	37.8		18	27.7
Medicare	61	55.5		24	53.3		37	56.9
Travel times to PCP
0–9 min	9	8.2	22.8	4	8.9	22.4	5	7.7	23.1	0.989
10–19 min	34	30.9		15	33.3		19	29.2
20–29 min	41	37.3		16	35.6		25	38.5
30–39 min	16	14.5		6	13.3		10	15.4
40 min or longer	10	9.1		4	8.9		6	9.2
Clinical/chronic illness
Asthma/COPD
No	73	66.4		29	64.4		44	67.7		0.723
Yes	37	33.6		16	35.6		21	32.3
Hypertension
No	35	31.8		16	35.6		19	29.2		0.484
Yes	75	68.2		29	64.4		46	70.8
Hypercholesterolemia
No	81	73.6		32	71.1		49	75.4		0.617
Yes	29	26.4		13	28.9		16	24.6
Chronic heart failure
No	84	76.4		31	68.9		53	81.5		0.125
Yes	26	23.6		14	31.1		12	18.5
Stroke/CVA
No	85	77.3		35	77.8		50	76.9		0.916
Yes	25	22.7		10	22.2		15	23.1
Psychiatric/behavioral
No	70	63.6		25	55.6		45	69.2		0.143
Yes	40	36.4		20	44.4		20	30.8
Diabetes
No	64	58.2		28	62.2		36	55.4		0.475
Yes	46	41.8		17	37.8		29	44.6

HF High frequency users, LF low frequency users
^aIncludes only patients who were considered at risk for falls
^bIncludes only patients with reported number of medications
^cEight (8) observations with “No response”
^dSignificance = .05

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