TABLE 4.
Baseline characteristics (% experiencing unless otherwise indicated) and one-year hospital readmission rate for DES (“treated”) and BMS (“untreated”) patients (columns 1 and 2). See §5.1 for details on the population that generated these data.
| DES (30562) |
BMS (23537) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Race: white | 90.2 | 90.1 |
| Male | 57.2 | 57.8 |
| Age (years) | 74.9 | 76.2 |
| Region | ||
| west | 16.0 | 13.7 |
| midwest | 27.7 | 30.0 |
| south | 40.6 | 38.8 |
| northeast | 15.7 | 17.5 |
| COPD | 15.7 | 16.9 |
| Asthma | 2.6 | 2.5 |
| Prior Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) performed | 0.4 | 1.1 |
| Prior congestive heart failure | 6.8 | 7.1 |
| Prior myocardial infarction | 3.0 | 2.8 |
| Unstable angina | 3.2 | 2.3 |
| Chronic atherosclerosis | 90.6 | 88.4 |
| Respiratory failure | 2.3 | 2.6 |
| Hypertension | 69.2 | 65.8 |
| Prior stroke | 1.0 | 1.3 |
| Cerebrovascular disease (non stroke) | 2.7 | 3.1 |
| Renal failure | 5.4 | 6.2 |
| Pneumonia | 6.7 | 8.5 |
| Malnutrition | 1.2 | 2.2 |
| Dementia | 3.3 | 5.3 |
| Functional disability | 1.3 | 1.7 |
| Peripheral vascular disease | 4.4 | 4.7 |
| Trauma in the past year | 3.5 | 4.3 |
| Major psychiatric disorder | 1.2 | 1.6 |
| Liver disease | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| Severe hematological disorder | 0.4 | 0.7 |
| Anemia | 14.6 | 18.2 |
| Depression | 4.8 | 4.9 |
| Parkinsons/Huntington | 0.9 | 1.0 |
| Seizure disorder | 1.1 | 1.4 |
| Chronic fibrosis | 1.4 | 1.6 |
| Vertebral fractures | 0.6 | 0.7 |
| Cancer | 3.6 | 6.3 |
| Eligible for Medicaid | 12.0 | 13.2 |
| Diabetes | 29.9 | 26.3 |
| Revascularization within two years | 22.0 | 27.5 |