Table 1.

Hospital Stay Characteristics

	All stays (n = 2,839,779)		Medical stays (n = 2,044,355)		Non-medical stays (n = 795,424)
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Patient age categories, years
66–70	260,962	9.19	160,310	7.84	100,652	12.65
71–75	352,886	12.43	226,824	11.10	126,062	15.85
76–80	481,910	16.97	327,226	16.01	154,684	19.45
81–85	640,176	22.54	463,648	22.68	176,528	22.19
86–90	644,626	22.70	496,612	24.29	148,014	18.61
Greater than 90	459,219	16.17	369,735	18.09	89,484	11.25
Gender
Male	963,403	33.93	713,365	34.89	250,038	31.43
Female	1,876,376	66.07	1,330,990	65.11	545,386	68.57
Race
White	2,500,617	88.06	1,785,125	87.32	715,492	89.95
Black	233,722	8.23	182,618	8.93	51,104	6.42
Other	105,440	3.71	76,612	3.75	28,828	3.62
Dual eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid*	593,445	20.90	480,816	23.52	112,629	14.16

*At hospital discharge