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Volume 30, Number 5—May 2024
Synopsis

Coccidioidomycosis-Related Hospital Visits, Texas, USA, 2016–2021

Heather MayfieldComments to Author , Vanora Davila, and Elena Penedo
Author affiliation: Texas Department of State Health Services, Austin, Texas, USA

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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.

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