Table 3.

Regional Healthcare Intensity of Hospital Referral Regions That Were (n = 9) and Were Not (n = 297) Associated with a Participating School (the Primary Hospital Referral Region Associated with Participating Medical School Was Considered to be the Hospital Referral Region That Encompassed the Majority of Hospitals Where Students from That School Rotate)

Regional healthcare intensity measures*	Hospital referral regions		P value
	Associated with a participating school (n = 9), mean (SD)	Not associated with a participating school (n = 297), mean (SD)
Hospital care intensity index†	0.92 (0.23)	0.93 (0.27)	0.91
Ratio of physician visits per decedent compared with US average	0.93 (0.22)	0.93 (0.25)	1.00
Ratio of medical specialty to primary care physician visits per decedent	1.11 (0.30)	1.11 (0.32)	1.00

*Regional healthcare intensity measures are per capita data from the Dartmouth Hospital Referral Region End-of-Life Atlas (adjusted for age, sex, race, and chronic illness) and reflect care intensity during the last 2 years of life for Medicare beneficiaries age 67 years or older with chronic illnesses who died in 2014

^†The hospital care intensity index represents the mean of the number of days decedents spent in the hospital and the number of physician visits they experienced as inpatients (both adjusted for age, sex, race, and chronic condition and reported as ratios compared with the US average)