Table 2. Length-of-Stay Among Patients Assigned to Teaching Hospitalist vs. Non-Hospitalist Teams.

	All	TH	NH
All Admissions	(n=9037)	(n=2913)	(n=6124)	p value*
Mean Length-of-stay	5.59 ± 7.10	5.01 ± 6.12	5.87 ± 7.51	0.02
Mean Truncated Length-of-stay†	5.31 ± 5.24	4.82 ± 4.80	5.54 ± 5.42	0.02
First Admission	(n = 6883)	(n = 2150)	(n = 4733)
Mean Length-of-stay	5.46 ± 7.10	4.96 ± 5.93	5.69 ± 7.56	0.04
Mean Truncated Length-of-stay†	5.17 ± 5.09	4.79 ± 4.76	5.34 ± 5.23	0.04

TH= Teaching Hospitalist; NH= Non-Hospitalist; LOS = Length-of-stay

^*Rank-based testing using Somers' D, with standard errors robust to clusters of patients by physician

^†LOS truncated at mean + 3 standard deviations