Table 2.

Patient Characteristics in Premier and Non-Premier Hospitals^§

Patient Characteristics		Premier	Non-Premier	P-Value
Number of Patients		91,393	502,537	N/A
Age (Median, IQR)		77, (71 – 83)	77, (71 – 83)	<0.001
Gender (% female)		47.7%	47.8%	0.94
African American		7.7%	7.2%	<0.001
Hispanic		1.4%	1.4%	0.28
Acute Myocardial Infarction	Non ST-Elevation MI (NSTEMI)	62.0%	61.3%	<0.001
	ST-Elevation MI (STEMI)	31.0%	31.3%	0.07
	Cardiogenic Shock / Cardiac Arrest	7.1%	7.4%	<0.001
Comorbid Conditions	Average Number of Comorbidities	1.84	1.85	0.14
	Congestive Heart Failure	0.9%	1.0%	0.22
	Diabetes	26.6%	26.4%	0.36
	Hypertension	55.7%	55.6%	0.73
	COPD	20.1%	19.6%	<0.001
Low Income* (Median, IQR)		14.0%(11.1% – 17.0%)	13.5%(10.1% – 16.3%)	<0.001

^*Lowincome is defined as the proportion of people below the poverty line in the patients’ county of residence

^§Chi-square tests were performed for categorical variables, while, for continuous variables, the table shows medians and inter-quartile ranges, along with p-values from a Mann-Whitney U test.