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Table 1 Comparison of baseline demographic information between patients dialyzing at for-profit versus not-for-profit facilities

From: Confounders of mortality and hospitalization rate calculations for profit and nonprofit dialysis facilities: analytic augmentation

 

For-Profit

Not-For-Profit

P-value

N = 366,011

N = 34,029

Continuous variables

Mean

Standard Deviation

Mean

Standard Deviation

Age (years)

62.6

14.9

62.3

15.2

< 0.01

Vintage (years)

2.6

3.0

2.7

3.2

< 0.001

Categorical variables

N

Percent

N

Percent

 

Male sex

202,771

55.4

19,002

55.8

0.12

Race

    

< 0.001

White

212,799

58.1

19,389

57.0

 

Black

131,554

35.9

11,712

34.4

 

Asian

16,120

4.4

1,889

5.6

 

Native American/Pacific Islander

4,390

1.2

943

2.8

 

Other

1,055

0.3

91

0.3

 

Unknown

93

0.03

5

0.01