. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: Qual Saf Health Care. 2010 Aug 19;19(5):1–5. doi: 10.1136/qshc.2009.033050

Table 1.

Characteristics of hospitalized nursing home patients and their hospitalizations, stratified by VA / non-VA group.

	VA	Non-VA
Patients (n)	226	243
Age (mean years (s.d.))	70.0 (13.0)	82.8 (10.6)^*
Male (%)	97.3%	25.4%^*
Hospitalizations (N)	331	387
Hospitalizations / Patient (N / n)	1.5	1.6
Pre-Hospitalization Medications (mean number (s.d.))	6.0 (3.1)	6.2 (2.9)
Hospital admission off-hours^§ (%)	63.4%	52.3%^†
Hospital length of stay (median days (range))	7 (1-296)	6 (1-98)^‡

P < .001 for comparison with VA group

^†

P < .01 for comparison with VA group

^‡

P ≤ .05 for comparison with VA group

^§

Not during regular business hours (8 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday)