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. 2014 Sep 15;190(6):649–655. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201406-1022OC

Table 1.

Hospital and Patient Characteristics for the Derivation, Validation, and Total Population

  Derivation Cohort (n = 162,088) Validation Cohort (n = 107,911) Total (n = 269,999)
Age, mean (SD), yr 60 (20) 60 (20) 60 (20)
Female sex, n (%) 97,978 (60) 64,303 (60) 162,281 (60)
Race      
 Black, n (%) 27,870 (17) 21,800 (20) 49,670 (18)
 White, n (%) 76,237 (47) 64,193 (59) 140,430 (52)
 Other/unknown, n (%) 57,981 (36) 21,918 (20) 79,899 (30)
Cardiac arrests, n (rate per 1,000 admissions) 264 (1.6) 160 (1.5) 424 (1.6)
ICU transfers, n (rate per 1,000 admissions) 8,143 (50) 5,045 (47) 13,188 (49)
Deaths, n (rate per 1,000 admissions) 1,902 (12) 938 (9) 2,840 (11)

Definition of abbreviation: ICU = intensive care unit.