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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011 Nov;59(Suppl 2):S282–S288. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03691.x

Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics of the Treatment Arms

Characteristic Donepezil (N = 7) Placebo (N = 9)

Participant Age (Mean ± STD, yrs) 88.0 ± 5.2 87.0 ± 3.7

Participant Gender – Female N(%) 5 (71%) 4 (44%)

Participant Race
Black N(%) 1 (14%) 1 (11%)
White N(%) 6 (86%) 8 (89%)

Participant H/O Dementia
Yes N(%) 3 (43%) 4 (44%)
No N(%) 4 (57%) 5 (56%)

Pre-fracture ADL Score
(Mean ± STD) 13.3 ± 3.6 12.8 ± 4.7
(0– 16, 16 best)

Participant Education
< High School N(%) 0 0
High School N(%) 1 (14%) 3 (33%)
Some College N(%) 2 (29%) 2 (22%)
Associate Degree N(%) 1 (15%) 0
Bacc Degree N(%) 1 (14%) 1 (11%)
Masters N(%) 1 (17%) 1 (11%)
Doctoral N(%) 0 1 (11%)
Unknown N(%) 0 1 (11%)

Anticholinergic Drug Exposure
Preoperative 1 (14%) 0
Postoperative 7 (100%) 7 (78%)

Neuroleptic Drug Exposure
Preoperative 2 (29%) 1 (11%)
Postoperative 3 (43%) 4 (44%)

Per the CONSORT recommendations for the reporting of clinical trials (24), no p-values are included in this table.