Table 1.

Demographic Information for Patients With ARDS Hospital Admissions (1,164,784) in the Medicare Cohort (2000-2012)

Age	77.5 ± 7.9
Length of hospital stay, d	13.9 ± 14.1
Length of ICU stay, d	6.7 ± 10.5
Sex
Male	558,373 (47.9%)
Female	606,411 (52.1%)
Race
White	1,010,159 (86.7%)
Black	97,979 (8.4%)
Asian	14,981 (1.3%)
Hispanic	12,160 (1.0%)
Native American	21,273 (1.8%)
Other	8,232 (0.8%)

Data are presented as mean ± SD unless otherwise indicated.