Table 1.

Characteristics of participating hospitals, Orange County, California, 2013

Hospital characteristic	Acute care hospitals
Number of beds	183 (27-457)
Number of admissions	11,120 (147-29,665)
Length of stay	4.4 (3.4-95.6)
No. of admissions by age, y
< 18	35,926 (16.9)
19-49	65,823 (31.0)
50-65	39,532 (18.6)
66-85	52,999 (25.0)
≥ 85	17,767 (8.4)
Male gender	88,098 (41.6)
Number of admissions by race
White	154,572 (72.9)
Black	4,707 (2.2)
Asian	28,702 (13.5)
Other	24,066 (11.4)
Number of admissions by insurance carrier
Medicare	73,807 (34.8)
Medicaid	42,275 (19.9)
Private	75,698 (35.7)
Other	20,228 (9.6)
Mean Elixhauser Comorbidity Index score (Mean SD)	2.0(0-13)

NOTE. Values are presented as median (range) or n (%).