Table 3

Drowning patient demographics, stratified by setting and age groups: Maryland (2016–2019)

		Outpatient				Inpatient
		0–4 years*	5–9 years	10–19 years	P value	0–4 years	5–9 years	10–19 years	P value
		(n=266)	(n=116)	(n=112)	P value	(n=15)	(n=11)	(n=21)	P value
Sex	Male	150 (56%)	70 (60%)	69 (62%)	0.58	9 (60%)	7 (64%)	14 (67%)	0.92
	Female	116 (44%)	46 (40%)	43 (38%)	0.58	6 (40%)	4 (36%)	7 (33%)	0.92
Race	White	173 (65%)	54 (47%)	42 (38%)	<0.001	12 (80%)	2 (18%)	9 (43%)	0.099
	Black	57 (21%)	44 (38%)	49 (44%)		2 (13%)	7 (64%)	6 (29%)
	Asian	4 (2%)	2 (2%)	3 (3%)		0 (0%)	0 (0%)	1 (5%)
	AI or Alaska Native	2 (1%)	2 (2%)	1 (1%)		0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
	Other/unknown	17 (6%)	11 (9%)	16 (14%)		0 (0%)	2 (18%)	4 (19%)
	Two or more	13 (5%)	3 (3%)	1 (1%)		1 (7%)	0 (0%)	1 (5%)
Compressed race	White	173 (65%)	54 (47%)	42 (38%)	<0.001	12 (80%)	2 (18%)	9 (43%)	0.006
	Non-white	93 (35%)	62 (53%)	70 (63%)	<0.001	3 (20%)	9 (82%)	12 (57%)	0.006
Ethnicity	Spanish/Hispanic	19 (7%)	10 (9%)	16 (14%)	0.13	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	4 (19%)	0.14
	Not Spanish/Hispanic	238 (90%)	102 (88%)	89 (80%)		15 (100%)	11 (100%)	16 (76%)
	Unknown	9 (3%)	4 (3%)	7 (6%)		0 (0%)	0 (0%)	1 (5%)
County	Urban	228 (86%)	100 (86%)	82 (73%)	0.039	13 (87%)	9 (82%)	17 (81%)	0.57
	Rural	7 (3%)	2 (2%)	5 (5%)		0 (0%)	0 (0%)	2 (10%)
	Other/unknown	31 (12%)	14 (12%)	25 (22%)		2 (13%)	2 (18%)	2 (10%)
Median charge†		428	456	730	0.002	4586	6790	11 224	0.003
Health insurance	Public	105 (40%)	46 (40%)	46 (41%)	0.32	8 (53%)	6 (55%)	9 (43%)	0.71
	Commercial	122 (46%)	55 (47%)	42 (38%)		6 (40%)	5 (46%)	9 (43%)
	Other/self/charity	39 (15%)	15 (13%)	24 (21%)		1 (7%)	0 (0%)	3 (14%)

*Data represented as n (%).
†Median charge reported in dollars.
AI, American Indian