Table 2:
Mortality Rates of Subgroups
| Category | Mortalitya |
|---|---|
| Gender - no. (%) | |
| Female | 559/1014 (55.1) |
| Male | 1225/2080 (58.9) |
| Primary expected payer - no. (%) | |
| Medicare | 681/1068 (63.8) |
| Medicaid | 238/450 (52.9) |
| Private Insurance | 710/1338 (53.1) |
| Self-pay/Other | 152/233 (65.2) |
| Procedures - no. (%)b | |
| Postcardiotomy | 538/914 (58.9) |
| Durable devices | 118/241 (49.0) |
| Transcatheter aortic valve replacement | 14/37 (40.5) |
| Heart transplant | 41/119 (34.5) |
| Admission characteristics - no. (%) | |
| Elective | 336/546 (61.5) |
| Emergency department | 456/855 (53.3) |
| Transfer in from acute care facility | 723/1227 (58.9) |
| Transfer in from another facility | 88/135 (65.2) |
| Hospital characteristics - no. (%) | |
| Bed sizec | |
| Small | 28/66 (42.4) |
| Medium | 169/321 (52.7) |
| Large | 1586/2703 (58.7) |
| Geographic region | |
| Northeast | 459/844 (54.4) |
| Midwest | 423/711 (59.5) |
| South | 614/1053 (58.3) |
| West | 288/486 (59.3) |
| Location | |
| Urban, nonteaching | 68/155 (43.9) |
| Urban, teaching | 1709/2923 (58.5) |
a
Estimates represent unweighted sample.
b
Data to September 2015 using ICD-9 codes.
c
The definition of hospital size depends on region, rural/urban and teaching/non-teaching status, and bed size, with number of beds ranging from 1–249 (small hospitals), 25–449 (medium hospitals), and 45–450+ (large hospitals).