Admission to acute care hospitals for adolescent substance abuse: a national descriptive analysis

Table 1 Characteristics of adolescent substance abuse acute care admissions and admission rates by category

Characteristic¹	Raw frequency	Weighted Total SA Admissions	Wgt % of Total SA Admissions*	SA Admission rate † (per 1000 adolescent admissions)	Pop. SA Admission Rate ‡ (per 100,000 population)
Total	3743	9371		12.0	38.8
Gender
Male	2330	5927	63.4	19.7	47.7
Female	1397	3415	36.6	7.1	29.1
Age Group
12–15	1164	3069	32.7	7.9	19.0
16–17	2579	6302	67.3	16.1	78.6
Primary Payor
Private Insurance	1916	5067	54.8	12.0
Government	989	2304	24.9	8.1
Self-Pay	329	777	8.4	20.6
Other	427	1105	11.9	38.4
Zip Code Median Income ^a
1–24,999	346	729	7.9	9.1
25,000–34,999	1071	2686	29.2	11.1
35,000–44,999	1128	3330	36.2	15.5
45,000 +	1111	2444	26.6	10.8
Hospital Location
Rural	540	1290	13.8	12.2
Urban	3200	8073	86.2	12.1
Hospital Type ^c
General Acute	3129	8002	86.7	14.8
Children's Hosp.	57	159	1.7	1.9
Children's Unit	485	1073	11.6	8.6
Diagnosis Group ^a
291 – Alcohol Psychoses	66	155	1.7
292 – Drug Psychoses	536	1,083	11.6
303 – Alcohol Dependence	444	1,263	13.5
304 – Drug Dependence	1,406	3,554	37.9
305 – Drug/Alcohol Abuse	1,291	3,315	35.4

¹ Individual frequencies may not add to total because of missing data (<5%) in any category
* Number of SA admission in group divided by total number of SA admissions
† Number of SA admission in category divided by number of any cause admission in category
‡ Number of SA admissions divided by number of individuals in population based on the 2000 US census
^aThree-digit ICD-9-CM code

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