Table 1.

Demographics, clinical characteristics, Medicare payments and hospital disposition of Medicare Beneficiaries Hospitalized for ICH.

Variable	Patients receiving no chronic life sustaining procedure (n=29,322)	Patients receiving feeding tube (n= 2,076)	P value for no procedure vs. feeding tube	Patients receiving tracheostomy (n= 812)	P value for no procedure vs. tracheostomy
Age, years, median (IQR)	80±11	80±10	0.71	75±11	<0.01
Male	43 %	45 %	0.14	57 %	<0.01
Race/Ethnicity
Caucasian	85 %	77 %	<0.01	70 %	<0.01
Black	9 %	16 %		22 %
Other	6 %	7 %		7 %
High Modified Charlson Score	16 %	17 %	0.57	16 %	0.62
Coma	7 %	4 %	<0.01	6 %	0.456
Ventilator	22 %	19 %	<0.01	NA
Craniotomy	4 %	10 %	<0.01	31 %	<0.01
Ventriculostomy	3 %	6 %	<0.01	29 %	<0.01
LOS, median (IQR)	4 ±5days	14 ±10days	<0.01	25 ±18days	<0.01
Medicare Payments, median (IQR)	$ 6,008 ±2,217	$6,786 ±5,927	<0.01	$ 81,479 ±49,354	<0.01
Discharge Location			<0.01		<0.01
Home	19 %	7 %		2 %
Inpatient Rehab	14 %	12 %		10 %
Skilled Nursing Facility	22 %	62 %		29 %
Long term Care Facility	1 %	6 %		29 %
Hospice	5 %	3 %		3 %
In hospital Mortality	36 %	8 %		20 %
Other	4 %	2 %		8 %