. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 18.

Published in final edited form as: Qual Saf Health Care. 2009 Feb;18(1):32–36. doi: 10.1136/qshc.2007.025957

Table 1.

Characteristics of patients and their hospital stays.

Patient	N	208
	Female (%)	43.8
	White (%)	60.2
	African-American (%)	27.7
	Age (mean years (s.d.))	77.2 (12.7)
	Duration of nursing home residence (median months (range))	7.2 (0–165)
	Comorbidity score²³ (median (range))	4 (0–15)
	Dementia (%)	46.63
Hospital stay	N^*	304
	VA Setting (%)	41.8
	APACHE score²⁴ (mean (s.d.))	5.2 (3.9)
	Length of stay (median days (range))	7 (1–296)
	Urinary tract infection (%)	18.1
	Pneumonia (%)	20.7
	Congestive heart failure (%)	9.5
	Dehydration (%)	13.8
	COPD (%)	4.9
	Off- hours Admission (%)	55.6

More than one hospital stay was allowed per patient.