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Published in final edited form as: Am J Cardiol. 2012 Jul 3;110(8):1150–1155. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2012.05.059

Table 2.

Inpatient Resource Use and Costs Within 12 Months of Death

Variable	Mode of Death
	Sudden Cardiac Death (n = 72)	Heart Failure (n = 80)	Other Cardiovascular (n = 34)	Noncardiovascular (n = 45)
Hospitalized at least once	45 (63%)	76 (95%)^*	31 (91%)^*	42 (93%)^*
Number of hospitalizations
Mean (SD)	1.4 (1.6)	3.5 (2.2)^*	2.4 (1.9)^*	3.3 (2.2)^*
Median (interquartile range)	1.0 (0.0–2.0)	3.0 (2.0–5.0)	2.0 (1.0–4.0)	3.0 (2.0–4.0)
Number of inpatient days
Mean (SD)	11.8 (19.5)	32.3 (28.5)^*	42.8 (55.0)^*	36.0 (37.1)^*
Median (interquartile range)	6.5 (0.0–12.5)	26.5 (14.0–42.0)	20.0 (5.0–60.0)	27.0 (11.0–50.0)
Inpatient costs, $
Mean (SD)	23,328 (48,003)	70,224 (85,154)^*	119,374 (159,398)^*	76,313 (96,019)^*
Median (interquartile range)	7832 (0–23,750)	46,756 (19,694–81,751)	39,226 (8064–195,002)	46,955 (17,043–91,272)

^*

P < .01. Sudden cardiac death served as the reference group. All other comparisons were P > .01.