Table 1.
Characteristics of 6665 hospitalized patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis identified from a representative US database
| Age, years, median (interquartile range) | 75 (67–82) |
| Male, n (%) | 3606 (54.1) |
| Race, n (%) | |
| White | 5343 (80.2) |
| Black | 453 (6.8) |
| Other | 869 (13.0) |
| Primary payer, n (%) | |
| Medicare | 5370 (80.6) |
| Managed care | 583 (8.7) |
| Medicaid | 312 (4.7) |
| Commercial | 165 (2.5) |
| Other | 235 (3.5) |
| Hospital location—US region, n (%) | |
| South | 3198 (48.0) |
| Midwest | 1562 (23.4) |
| West | 1061 (15.9) |
| Northeast | 844 (12.7) |
| Attending physician specialty, n (%) | |
| Internal medicine/hospitalist | 4428 (66.4) |
| Family medicine | 584 (8.8) |
| Pulmonary medicine | 453 (6.8) |
| Critical care/intensivist | 126 (1.9) |
| Other | 1074 (16.1) |
| Admitted to teaching hospital, n (%) | 2735 (41.0) |
| Population served by hospital, n (%) | |
| Urban | 5850 (87.8) |
| Rural | 815 (12.2) |