Table 1.

Patient Characteristics for Hemorrhagic Stroke Discharges from JC-PSC Certified and Non-Certified Hospitals

	SAH (ICD-9-CM 430)			ICH (ICD-9-CM 431)
Characteristic	JC-PSC Certified Hospitals	Non- Certified Hospitals	p-value	JC-PSC Certified Hospitals	Non- Certified Hospitals	p-value
Hospital discharges, total number	2,305	3,892		8,708	22,564
Age (yrs), mean ± SD	75.6±7.4	77.3±8.0	<.0001	78.5±7.5	79.5±7.7	<0.0001
Female, %	67.4	66.9	0.7043	53.4	57.1	<0.0001
Comorbid conditions, %
Cerebrovascular disease	10.8	9.4	0.0728	5.5	5.4	0.6329
Hypertension	54.4	56.7	0.0846	65.7	64.9	0.1906
Diabetes	14.2	16.2	0.0347	20.6	21.3	0.1977
Renal failure	9.0	9.6	0.445	10.7	10.9	0.7443
COPD	13.4	12.5	0.3244	12.1	12.6	0.2493
Congestive heart failure	11.9	13.1	0.1638	13.5	14.5	0.0207
Acute myocardial infarction	3.9	3.5	0.4236	1.9	1.6	0.0823
Peripheral vascular disease	11.1	8.0	<.0001	7.3	6.1	<0.0001
Cardiopulmonary-respiratory failure	34.2	25.1	<.0001	19.3	15.0	<0.0001
Pneumonia	17.7	14.3	0.0004	12.5	11.8	0.1319
Dementia	35.2	27.5	<.0001	21.5	22.3	0.1525
In-hospital death, %	27.5	33.2	<.0001	27.9	29.6	0.0033
Discharge to skilled nursing facility/intermediate care facility, %	17.3	15.4	0.05	22.1	22.5	0.4207
Length of stay (days), mean ± SD	14.9±12.9	12.0±11.5	<.0001	8.1±7.5	7.8±7.7	0.0447

Abbreviations: SAH, subarachnoid hemorrhage; ICH, intracerebral hemorrhage; ICD-9-CM, International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification; JC, Joint Commission; PSC, Primary Stroke Center; SD, standard deviation; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease