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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Econ. 2014 Oct 22;39:1–16. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2014.09.003

Appendix Table 4.

Estimation results using individuals from different hospitals

(1) From 50% hospitals with low rehospitalization rate (2) From 50% hospitals with high rehospitalization rate (3) From hospitals with low share of black patients (4) From hospitals with high share of black patients
Distance from residential zip code −0.0826*** [−18.66] −0.0788*** [−14.88] −0.0886*** [−21.80] −0.0777*** [−9.679]

Distance from originating hospital −0.0845*** [−14.40] −0.0754*** [−16.22] −0.0890*** [−19.51] −0.0745*** [−11.43]

Number of CNAs per bed −1.108*** [−5.833] −1.040*** [−7.991] −1.089*** [−9.027] −1.143*** [−5.172]

Number of RNs per bed 3.658*** [15.84] 2.282*** [11.28] 3.008*** [16.05] 2.576*** [9.765]

Number of LPNs per bed 1.796*** [5.192] 2.066*** [5.971] 2.056*** [6.615] 1.986*** [4.787]

% of black in NH −0.0491*** [−8.622] −0.0390*** [−12.98] −0.0833*** [−15.11] −0.0290*** [−10.58]

Black * Distance from residential zip code 0.000755 [0.0722] 0.00301 [0.472] 0.000621 [0.0766] 0.00238 [0.442]

Black * Distance from originating hospital −0.0131 [−0.943] −0.01 [−1.251] −0.0218*** [−2.740] −0.00992 [−1.381]

Black * Number of CNAs per bed −0.613 [−1.578] −0.103 [−0.385] −0.0419 [−0.146] −0.152 [−0.700]

Black * Number of RNs per bed 0.394 [1.098] 0.518 [1.451] 0.0296 [0.103] 0.587** [2.036]

Black * Number of LPNs per bed −0.171 [−0.400] −0.399 [−0.679] −0.317 [−0.529] −0.421 [−0.860]

Black * % of black in NH 0.0551*** [10.26] 0.0453*** [14.00] 0.0813*** [11.37] 0.0358*** [14.19]

Observations 1,797,450 2,567,907 2,290,414 1,763,067
N 54,374 63,938 62,103 39,645
% of black in sample 4.4 10.8 2.37 19.8