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Table 1 Characteristics of 56,717 hospitalizations with documented OUD without opioid overdose, by OUD diagnosis position (primary/secondary)

From: Non-overdose acute care hospitalizations for opioid use disorder among commercially-insured adults: a retrospective cohort study

Variable

ALL

Primary-OUD

Secondary-OUD

p-value

N

56,717

24,495

32,222

 

Age (years), Mean (SD)

34.38 (14.0)

29.8 (11.4)

37.9 (14.7)

 < 0.001

Age Group (years)

   

 < 0.001

 18–25

26,095 (46.0%)

14,745 (60.2%)

11,350 (35.2%)

 

 26–34

7477 (13.2%)

3446 (14.1%)

4031 (12.5%)

 

 35–44

7519 (13.3%)

2732 (11.2%)

4787 (14.9%)

 

 45–54

7972 (14.1%)

2126 (8.7%)

5846 (18.1%)

 

 55–64

7654 (13.5%)

1446 (5.9%)

6208 (19.3%)

 

Gender, Male

33,374 (58.8%)

16,201 (66.1%)

17,173 (53.3%)

 <0 .001

Relationship to Insured

   

 < 0.001

 Employee

17,924 (31.6%)

6274 (25.6%)

11,650 (36.2%)

 

 Spouse

13,028 (23.0%)

3715 (15.2%)

9313 (28.9%)

 

 Child/Other

25,765 (45.4%)

14,506 (59.2%)

11,259 (34.9%)

 

Admission Type

   

 < 0.001

 Psychiatric and Substance Abuse

3546 (6.3%)

24,310 (99.2%)

19,049 (59.1%)

 

 Surgical

8,300 (14.6%)

46 (0.2%)

3500 (10.9%)

 

 Medical

1,312 (2.3%)

0 (0.0%)

8300 (25.8%)

 

 Maternity and Newborn

43,359 (76.4%)

0 (0.0%)

1312 (4.1%)

 

 Unknown

200 (0.4%)

139 (0.6%)

61 (0.2%)

 
  1. aGroup differences were evaluated using chi-square tests for categorical variables and Kruskal–Wallis tests for continuous variables