Table 4.

Impact of adding CAL conditions identified by survival-based method over a ten year period (1997-2006) (n=87,462)

Age at Application a	<18		18-64		65+
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Number of applicants affected	176	0.2	86,984	99.5	243	0.3
Number of denied applicants who subsequently died	8	0.5	1,618	98.7	14	0.9
	Mean +/− sd
Mean reduction in wait time Months (sd)	2.9 (2.2)		1.5 (1.9)		1.9 (1.9)

Source: NIH tabulation, SSA Administrative Data

^a: Missing age information (n=59)