Volume 30, Number 5—May 2024
Synopsis
Coccidioidomycosis-Related Hospital Visits, Texas, USA, 2016–2021
, Vanora Davila, and Elena Penedo
Table 3
Demographics of inpatients and outpatients with coccidioidomycosis in study of coccidioidomycosis-related hospital visits, Texas, USA, 2016–2021*
| Demographics | No. inpatients | No. outpatients | Total no. (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| No. patients |
2,114 |
1,612 |
3,726 (100.0) |
| Primary coccidioidomycosis diagnosis | |||
| Yes | 418 | 832 | 1,250 (33.5) |
| No |
1,696 |
780 |
2,476 (66.5) |
| Age group, y | |||
| 0–17 | 58 | 69 | 127 (3.4) |
| 18–44 | 633 | 444 | 1,077 (28.9) |
| 46–64 | 865 | 657 | 1,522 (40.9) |
| 65–74 | 359 | 297 | 656 (17.6) |
| >75 |
199 |
145 |
344 (9.2) |
| Patient sex | |||
| M | 1,156 | 941 | 2,097 (56.3) |
| F | 607 | 621 | 1,228 (33.0) |
| Unknown |
351 |
50 |
401 (10.8) |
| Race/ethnicity† | |||
| Hispanic | 1,073 | 696 | 1,769 (47.5) |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 204 | 237 | 441 (11.8) |
| Non-Hispanic other‡ | 129 | 121 | 250 (6.7) |
| Non-Hispanic White |
708 |
556 |
1,264 (33.9) |
| Geographic region§ | |||
| Valley fever region¶ | 1,395 | 968 | 2,363 (63.4) |
| Non–Valley fever region | 700 | 635 | 1,335 (35.8) |
*International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification, codes were used to determine a coccidioidomycosis diagnosis and included codes B38, B38.0, B38.1, B38.2, B38.3, B38.4, B38.7, B38.8, B38.81, B38.89, B38.9. †Unknown race/ethnicity category was suppressed because the Texas Health Care Information Collection rules dictate any value <10 must be suppressed. ‡Non-Hispanic other category also includes American Indian/Eskimo/Aleut, Asian or Pacific Islander, and other. If a hospital has <10 patients of 1 race, that race is changed to other, and the ethnicity of patients of that race is suppressed. §Unknown geographic region category was suppressed because the Texas Health Care Information Collection rules dictate any value <10 must be suppressed. ¶The 96-county area of Texas estimated to be coccidioidomycosis-endemic was determined by using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Valley fever maps spatially overlaid on a Texas county map. Any county that fell within the estimated area was designated as a Valley fever region.