Abortion-related emergency department visits in the United States: An analysis of a national emergency department sample

Table 1 Characteristics of abortion-related emergency department visits, 2009–2013 weighted n = 27,941

	Weighted N	Weighted %	Abortion patients in the U.S., 2014% [15]
Total	27,941	100	100
Patient characteristics
Age
15–19	3605	12.9	11.7
20–24	9686	34.7	33.6
25–29	6952	24.9	26.5
30–39	6809	24.4	25.0
40–49	888	0.3	3.1
Primary payer
Private insurance	8787	31.4	31.3
Medicaid	12,624	45.2	34.6
Medicare	410	1.5	–
Self-pay	4764	17.1	27.6^A
No charge	188	0.7	–
Other	1049	3.8	6.5^B
Missing	118	0.4	–
Urban/rural residence
Urban	25,435	91.0
Rural	2401	8.6
Missing	104	0.4
Zip code-based national income quartile
First quartile (low)	7686	27.5	65.3^C
Second quartile	7014	25.1	65.3^C
Third quartile	7082	25.3	21.7
Fourth quartile (high)	5721	20.5	21.7
Missing	437	1.6	13.0
Comorbidities
Diabetes	415	1.5
Hypertension	879	3.1
Overweight/obese BMI	507	1.8
Hospital characteristics
Region
Northeast	4539	16.2
Midwest	4627	16.6
South	9912	35.5
West	8862	31.7
Trauma level of hospital
Level I or II	9429	33.7
Nontrauma or level III	17,537	62.8
Not specified	974	3.5
Urban/rural location of hospital
Urban	25,796	92.3
Rural	2145	7.7
Visit characteristics
ED visit day
Weekday	20,640	73.9
Weekend	7301	26.1
ED visit season
Fall	5628	20.1
Winter	5989	21.4
Spring	6343	22.7
Summer	6174	22.1
Missing	3808	13.6
Year
2009	5350	19.1
2010	5899	21.1
2011	5448	19.5
2012	5627	20.1
2013	5617	20.1
Total ED charges
<$1000	2643	9.5
$1000–$1999	4290	15.4
$2000–$4999	7188	25.7
$5000–$9999	3083	11.0
$10,000+	2407	8.6
Missing	8330	29.8

BMI body mass index, ED Emergency department
^ADefined as no coverage
^BDefined as had either insurance through Healthcare.gov or a different type of insurance
^CDefined as poor (<100% federal poverty level) or low income (<200% federal poverty level). At the time of the study, the national income median was approximately equal to 200% federal poverty level

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