EXHIBIT 2.

Characteristics of Attending Physicians Types

Characteristics of hospitalized nursing home residents based on the pattern of the attending physician

	All hospitalists	All nonhospitalaist generalist	All subspecialists	Mixture of attending physicians
CHARACTERISTICS
N	8,913	23,850	2,723	18,006
Age (Mean, SD)	84.7 (7.3)	84.9 (7.3)	84.4 (7.4)	84.2 (7.4)
Gender (%Female)	72.7	72.3	68.3	70.1
MARITAL STATUS
Married (%)	23.4	24.8	24.6	24.4
RACE
White	82.9	86.3	73.1	76.6
Black	12.1	9.8	17.2	15.0
Hispanic	3.9	2.6	5.9	6.5
Other race	1.1	1.3	3.8	1.9
DISEASE
Diabetes mellitus	26.7	26.2	25.5	27.2
Arteriosclerotic heart	13.2	15.2	16.4	15.7
Congestive heart failure	23.1	24.3	22.5	22.2
Hip fracture	4.9	4.9	5.4	4.6
Cancer	5.5	5.9	7.6	6.4
Pneumonia	6.2	6.3	8.1	6.7
COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE SCALE (CPS) (0–28)
4	33.5	33.3	38.2	38.2
5	33.2	32.3	28.6	30.1
6	33.3	34.4	33.2	31.7
ADL (Mean, SD)	22.7 (5.6)	22.8 (5.5)	22.8 (5.6)	22.7 (5.5)
CLINICAL CARE PROCESSES
Do not resuscitate (DNR)	63.0	63.5	49.6	52.6
Feeding tube restriction	9.9	10.0	9.8	8.8
CHARACTERISTICS OF HOSPITAL (%)
For profit	71.8	70.9	71.0	72.1
Medical school affiliated	35.1	26.4	39.1	40.9
Graduate medical education (GME)	25.0	17.4	28.7	30.0
Bed (Mean, SD)	286.5 (288.2)	220.2 (217.3)	335.5 (247.8)	335.9 (267.7)
RURAL
	31.7	41.9	10.4	13.0
30 Day Mortality
	23.6	23.8	23.8	25.1

Source: Medicare Claims Data 2001–2010

Notes: Exhibit 2 characterized the hospitalized NH residents with based on pattern of the attending physician finding that subspecialist and mixture of attending physician was more likely to black, less likely to have a DNR order, and more likely to receive their care at hospital with medical school affiliation.