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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pain Symptom Manage. 2014 Aug 15;49(3):521–529.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.06.017

Table 2.

Characteristics of Study Hospitals (N=166 hospitals)

Bed Size, median (IQR) 217 (125–317)
Teaching Status*, N (%)
  Non-teaching 88 (53%)
  Minor Teaching 52 (32%)
  Major Teaching 25 (15%)
Proportion of admissions which are cancer, mean (sd) 13.2 (2.99)
Proportion of admissions which are CHF/COPD, mean (sd) 33 (8.36)
Mean predicted probability of death on admission, mean (sd) 3.18 (.562)
Proportion of admissions among Medicaid, mean (sd) 12.5 (7.68)
Proportion of admissions among Black, mean (sd) 9.47 (16.2)
*

Teaching status is based upon the resident-to-bed ratio: major teaching=resident-to-bed ratio >0.25; minor teaching=resident-to-bed ratio>0 but<0.25; and non-teaching=resident-to-bed ratio = 0