FIG. 2.

Pennsylvania hospitals' black and white standardized “end of life” ICU and life-sustaining treatment ratios. This graph depicts scatterplots of 95 Pennsylvania hospitals' black versus white EOL case-mix standardized (observed-to-expected) ICU admission rate, ICU LOS, intubation and mechanical ventilation, tracheostomy, hemodialysis, and gastrostomy using 2001–2007 PHC4 data and measured among admissions at HPD. Each circle is a single hospital. The x-axis is the hospital-specific O/E ratio among white HPD patients, and the y-axis is the hospital-specific O/E ratio among black HPD patients. We present statistics regarding the Pearson correlation (rho) between the black and white measures, a summary of the black and white measure mean (SD), and the p-value for a paired t-test of the difference between the means in the upper left corner of each panel. ICU, intensive care unit; LOS, length of stay; SD, standard deviation.