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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Hosp Med. 2010 Feb;5(2):69–75. doi: 10.1002/jhm.589

Table 2.

Comparison between patients with documented and those with undocumented:

CI Documented CI Undocumented p-value p-value*

N 165 (39%) 259 (61%) N/A
Mean Age (SD) 79.1 (7.9) 76.1 (8.0) <0.001
% Female 68.5% 64.5% 0.40
% African American 68.5% 53.7% <0.01
Mean SPMSQ at Screen (SD) 3.4 (2.7) 6.3 (2.1) <0.001
Mean Charslon Comorbidity Index (SD) 1.9 (1.9) 2.3 (2.1) 0.03
Mean Length of Hospital Stay (SD) 6.7 (5.1) 7.5 (7.1) 0.49 0.59
% Survived at 30 day post discharge 95.2% 93.4% 0.53 0.25
% Discharged Home 31.5% 45.2% =0.01 0.74
% Readmission within 30 days after
Discharge Home 19.2% 18.8% 0.99 0.66
% Incidence Delirium 26.7% 20.6% 0.52 0.99
% Observed with Foley Catheter 43.6% 27.4% <0.001 0.61
% Observed with Physical Restraint 1.8% 1.5% 0.99 0.31
% Observed with Tethers 81.8% 73.8% 0.06 0.58
% with at least one Ach 83.6% 90.7% 0.03 0.22
 - % Possible Ach 81.2% 88.4% 0.05 0.31
 - % Definite Ach 32.7% 33.2% 0.99 0.64
*

p-value after adjusting for age, gender, race, Charslon comorbidity index, and SPMSQ at screen.

Ach: Anticholinergics