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Table 1. Patient Characteristics.

Characteristic	Patients, No. (%) (n = 303)
Age, median (IQR), y^a	62 (53-71)
Men^a	173 (57.1)
Race
White	191 (63.0)
African American	98 (32.3)
Some college or more	147 (49.8)
Married or living with partner	150 (50.1)
Employed	85 (28.4)
Living at home prior to critical illness^b	283 (94.1)
Insurance status^a
Private	106 (35.6)
Medicare	161 (54.0)
Hospitalized in prior year	213 (70.3)
Able to ambulate up 10 stairs before hospitalization^b	243 (80.7)
Toileting independently before hospitalization^b	267 (88.4)
Normal cognition before hospitalization^b	249 (80.8)
Coronary artery disease^a	103 (34.0)
Peripheral vascular disease^a	61 (20.1)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease^a	66 (21.8)
Renal failure requiring dialysis^a	30 (9.9)
Liver disease^a	35 (11.6)
Obesity^a	106 (35.0)
Rheumatologic condition^a	50 (16.5)
Psychiatric condition^a	104 (34.3)
Malignancy (treated for cure)^a	65 (21.5)
Malignancy (metastatic or palliative)^a	40 (13.2)
Transplant history^a^,^c	21 (6.9)
ICU type^a
Medical	190 (62.7)
Surgical	113 (37.3)
ICU admitting diagnosis^a
Respiratory failure	83 (27.4)
Sepsis	66 (21.8)
Nonemergency surgery	54 (17.8)
Emergency surgery	34 (11.2)
Cardiac (nonsurgical)	18 (5.9)
Hemorrhagic shock	11 (3.6)
Other	37 (12.2)
APACHE III score, median (IQR), d^a	96 (75-120)
ICU length of stay, median (IQR), d^a	8 (5-14)
Hospital length of stay, median (IQR), d^a	17 (11-27)
Required ventilation^a	276 (91.1)
Ventilator days, median (IQR)^a	6 (3-10)
Required vasoactive infusions^a	247 (81.5)
Received dialysis^a	64 (21.1)
Goals of care made palliative in the ICU^a	73 (24.1)
Discharge disposition^a
Dead	72 (23.8)
Home	90 (29.7)
Other	141 (46.5)
6-mo disposition^b
Dead	130 (43.5)
Original place of residence	138 (44.4)
Other	31 (10.3)

Abbreviations: APACHE III, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation III; ICU, intensive care unit; IQR, interquartile range.

^{^a}

Abstracted from chart.

^{^b}

Data acquired from patient or surrogate.

^{^c}

Transplant includes lung, liver, kidney, bone marrow.