Table 3

Insurance status and hospital data (NTDB 2010–2014)

ICP monitoring
n (%)
No ICP monitoring
n (%)
P value
Insurance status<0.001
 Private/commercial945 (23.1)4615 (17.3)
 Self-pay625 (15.3)3721 (14.0)
 Blue Cross Blue Shield258 (6.3)1342 (5.0)
 Medicare664 (16.2)7962 (29.9)
 Medicaid594 (14.5)2996 (11.3)
 Other/unknown384 (9.4)2732 (10.3)
Hospital status0.034
 Community1467 (35.8)9488 (35.6)
 Non-teaching405 (9.9)2993 (11.2)
 University2221 (54.3)14 136 (53.1)
Neurosurgeons, n<0.001
 00 (0.0)56 (0.2)
 1–2285 (7.0)2280 (8.6)
 3–52008 (49.1)12 595 (47.3)
 >51800 (44.0)11 686 (43.9)
  • ICP, intracranial pressure; NTDB, National Trauma Data Bank.