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Table 1 Baseline patient characteristics and outcomes between self-report opioid misuse (via questionnaire) and no misuse

From: External validation of an opioid misuse machine learning classifier in hospitalized adult patients

Characteristics and outcomes

Opioid misuse (n = 628)

No misuse (n = 53467)

p-value

Age, median (IQR)

49 (38–8)

61 (45–71)

 < 0.001

Male Sex, n (%)

400 (63.6%)

22055 (41.2%)

 < 0.001

Race/Ethnicity, n (%)

 < 0.001

 Non-Hispanic White

196 (31.2%)

23221 (43.4%)

 Non-Hispanic Black

336 (53.5%)

17232 (32.2%)

 Hispanic White

26 (4.1%)

2927 (5.5%)

 Hispanic Black

2 (< 1%)

134 (< 1%)

 Other

68 (10.8%)

9953 (18.6%)

DAST Score (median, IQR, n = 16,453)

6 (4–8)

0 (0–1)

 < 0.001

Insurance, n (%)

 < 0.001

 Medicare

79 (12.5%)

20074 (37.5%)

 Medicaid

65 (74.0%)

18136 (33.9%)

 Private

84 (13.4%)

14686 (27.4%)

 Other

0 (0%)

571 (1.1%)

Elixhauser Comorbidities, n (%)

 Hypertension, uncomplicated

163 (25.9%)

17686 (33.1%)

 < 0.001

 Hypertension, complicated

150 (23.8%)

14970 (27.9%)

0.025

 Diabetes Mellitus, uncomplicated

25 (3.9%)

3718 (6.9%)

0.005

 Diabetes Mellitus, complicated

83 (13.2%)

11277 (21.1%)

 < 0.001

 Renal Failure

93 (14.8%)

11045 (20.7%)

 < 0.001

 Neurologic Disorders

100 (15.9%)

8471 (15.8%)

0.999

 Congestive Heart Failure

117 (18.6%)

9670 (18.1%)

0.764

 Liver Disease

94 (14.9%)

3772 (7.1%)

 < 0.001

 Chronic Lung Disease

236 (37.5%)

10633 (19.9%)

 < 0.001

 Psychoses

119 (18.9%)

2072 (3.8%)

 < 0.001

 Depression

146 (23.2%)

7974 (14.9%)

 < 0.001

 Alcohol Abuse

116 (18.4%)

1957 (3.6%)

 < 0.001

 Drug Abuse

605 (96.3%)

1190 (2.2%)

 < 0.001

 AIDS/HIV

22 (3.5%)

389 (< 1%)

 < 0.001

Discharge Disposition, n (%)

 < 0.001

 Home

355 (56.5%)

31224 (57.1%)

 In-Hospital Death

3 (< 1%)

590 (1.1%)

 Long or Shorter Term Care

120 (19.1%)

7150 (13.4%)

 Against Medical Advice

60 (9.5%)

365 (< 1%)

 Other

90 (14.3%)

14138 (26.4%)