Burn recidivism: a 10-year retrospective study characterizing patients with repeated burn injuries at a large tertiary referral burn center in the United States

Table 1 Patient demographics based on the number of burn injury admissions to the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center, 2005–2015

	Non-recidivist (NRC) n = 7083	Recidivist (RC) n = 51	RC2s n = 37	RC≥3 n = 14	p value NRC vs. RC
Age, years, median (IQR)	42 (29–55)	36 (25–48)	37 (27–44)	39.5 (36–52)	0.02*
Male	5116 (72.2)	35 (68.6)	25 (67.6)	10 (71.4)	0.57
Female	1967 (27.8)	16 (31.4)	12 (32.4)	4 (28.6)	0.57
Race, n (%)
Black	1923 (28.5)	11 (21.5)	10 (27.0)	1 (7.1)	0.27
White	4030 (59.7)	38 (74.5)	26 (70.3)	12 (85.7)	0.03*
Other^a	792 (11.7)	2 (3.9)	1 (2.7)	1 (7.1)	0.08
Unknown	338	0	0	0
Ethnicity, n (%)
Non-hispanic	5349 (91.5)	51 (100)	37 (100)	14 (100)	0.03*
Hispanic	496 (8.5)	0	0	0	0.03*
Unknown	1238	0	0	0
Primary payer, n (%)
Private	2077 (29.6)	9 (17.6)	7 (18.9)	2 (14.3)	0.06
Self-pay	2118 (30.2)	23 (45.1)	17 (45.9)	6 (42.9)	0.02*
Medicaid	915 (13.0)	10 (19.6)	5 (13.5)	5 (35.7)	0.16
Medicare	1141 (16.3)	7 (13.7)	7 (18.9)	0	0.62
Other^b	761 (10.9)	2 (3.9)	1 (2.7)	1 (7.1)	0.17
Unknown	71	0	0	0

IQR interquartile range (25th–75th)
NRC, patients with only 1 burn injury admission
RC, all recidivists (RC2s + RC≥3)
RC2s, patients with exactly 2 burn injury admissions
RC≥ 3, patients with 3 or more burn injury admissions (range 3–8)
^aOther includes American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
^bOther includes workers’ compensation, military, or other government-issued insurance
*p < 0.05

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