Table 1.

Individual-Level Characteristics

	Mean	Standard Deviation
Primary Diagnosis
Lung cancer	19%
Colon cancer	12%
Stroke	38%
Myocardial infraction	30%
Comorbidity Adjustment
Charlson score	1.37	1.92
Number of hospitalizations	1.54	2.16
Demographics
Age (years)	78.9	7.07
Male	48%
White	86%
Medicaid recipient	15%
Zip-code median income  ($1,000)	31.0	11.69
Used hospice before death	15%