Table 1.

Characteristics of hospitals without and with end-of-life resources.

Hospital characteristics	No EOL resources	At least one EOL resource
Hospitals, No.	24	54
Bed size, %
0–99	33.3	15.1
100–199	45.8	26.4
200+	20.8	58.5
Metropolitan CBSA, %	54.2	84.9
ACGME site, %	12.5	54.7
Church-operated, %	4.2	11.3
Daily rounds, %	33.3	63.0
Daytime intensivist staffing, %	54.2	77.8
Nighttime intensivist staffing, %	4.2	24.1
Number of patients per nurse, average (SD)	3.0 (0.7)	2.8 (0.5)

Definition of abbreviations: ACGME = Accrediation Council for Graduate Medical Education; CBSA = core-based statistical area; EOL = end-of-life; SD = standard deviation.