Table 4.

Quality Measures: Descriptive Statistics

Place of death
	Number of nursing homes	Mean	Standard deviation	Minimum	Maximum
2003	15,203	0.030	0.184	−0.408	0.903
2004	15,167	0.029	0.180	−0.386	0.920
2005	15,036	0.026	0.180	−0.390	0.915
2006	14,987	0.021	0.180	−0.405	0.926
2007	14,987	0.016	0.191	−0.423	0.900

Hospice
2003	15,256	0.010	0.252	−0.838	1.000
2004	15,365	0.049	0.252	−0.713	1.000
2005	15,265	0.075	0.254	−0.773	1.000
2006	15,265	0.108	0.260	−0.726	1.000
2007	15,212	0.129	0.273	−0.771	1.000