Table 2.
Baseline Hospital Characteristics
| Hospital characteristics | |||||
| Number of beds, n | 443.77±280.13 | 447.53±285.13 | 440.03±270.97 | 442.33±289.78 | 429.71±274.31 |
| Academic hospital, % | 64.38 | 63.37 | 66.63 | 68.51 | 62.03 |
| Rural hospital, % | 6.77 | 6.48 | 6.27 | 8.77 | 10.67 |
| Region | |||||
| West, % | 5.86 | 5.87 | 6.04 | 4.87 | 5.21 |
| South, % | 37.78 | 38.65 | 35.16 | 46.43 | 39.37 |
| Midwest, % | 27.96 | 28.4 | 27.34 | 20.78 | 28.87 |
| Northeast, % | 28.41 | 27.08 | 31.45 | 27.92 | 26.55 |
| Primary PCI performed for MI, % | 82.09 | 81.84 | 82.01 | 82.47 | 84.28 |
| Interventional capabilities, % | 73.6 | 73.57 | 74.57 | 70.45 | 70.72 |
| Cardiac surgery on site, % | 73.95 | 74.03 | 74.87 | 72.08 | 70.06 |
| Cardiac transplant center | 10.37 | 11.31 | 9.17 | 6.17 | 8.85 |
| Performance measures | |||||
| Discharge instructions provided, % | 89.81 | 90.7 | 91.02 | 77.18 | 79.98 |
| HF patients with LVSD discharged on β‐blocker, % | 93.59 | 94.96 | 94.79 | 75.95 | 82.38 |
| HF patients with smokers with smoking cessation, % | 94.63 | 95.03 | 95.34 | 87.88 | 89.23 |
| HF patients with follow‐up appointment at discharge, % | 61.99 | 64.46 | 59.77 | 50 | 46.27 |
| HF patients with LVSD with ICD placed/prescribed at discharge, % | 61.06 | 65.25 | 52.56 | 64.29 | 48.89 |
HF signifies heart failure; ICD, implantable cardiac defibrillator; LVSD, left ventricular systolic dysfunction; MI, myocardial infarction; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention.