Table 1.

Baseline patient characteristics

Characteristic	N=790
Study Hospital, N (%)
Vanderbilt University Hospital	373 (47.2)
Brigham and Women's Hospital	417 (52.8)
Age in years, median (IQR)	61 (52, 71)
Gender, N (%)
Male	452 (57.2)
Female	338 (42.8)
Primary language, N (%)
English	779 (98.6)
Spanish	11 (1.4)
Race, N (%)
White	610 (77.2)
Black or African American	136 (17.2)
Other	44 (5.6)
Health Literacy, s-TOFHLA score, median (IQR)	33 (25,35)
Health Literacy, N (%)*
Inadequate	84 (10.6)
Marginal	74 (9.4)
Adequate	613 (77.6)
Mini Cog score, median (IQR)	4 (3, 5)
Dementia, N (%)
No	692 (87.6)
Yes	98 (12.4)
Number of medications, median (IQR)	8 (5, 11)
Health insurance type, N (%)
Medicaid	74 (9.4)
Medicare	337 (42.6)
Private	334 (42.3)
Self-pay	35 (4.4)
Other	10 (1.3)
Self-reported household income, N (%)*
<$10,000	38 (4.8)
$10,000 to < $15,000	45 (5.7)
$15,000 to < $20,000	42 (5.3)
$20,000 to < $25,000	105 (13.3)
$25,000 to < $35,000	99 (12.5)
$35,000 to < $50,000	112 (14.2)
$50,000 to < $75,000	118 (14.9)
$75,000+	227 (28.7)
Years of school, median (IQR)*	14 (12, 16)

^*Missing sTOFHLA N=19; missing household income N=4; missing years of school N= 1