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Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2019 Nov 21;68(3):551–558. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16242

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics for 2,629 hospice patients age 65+ with dementia in hospice for 7–180 days, overall and by discharge type

	Total sample n=2,629 % / Mean (SD)	Died n=2,440 % / Mean (SD)	Live discharge n=189 % / Mean (SD)	p value

Outcome
Live discharge due to condition stabilization	7
Death (reference)	93
Demographic/Health Characteristics
Race/Ethnicity				0.001^a
African American	16	16	16
Hispanic	20	19	32
Other race/ethnicity	9	9	7
Non-Hispanic white (reference)	55	56	45
Female	72	72	73	0.75^a
Age (R: 65–111 years old)	89.8	89.9	88.9	0.71^b
	(7.4)	(7.3)	(7.5)
Medicaid recipient	2	2	3	0.55^a
Not married	73	73	76	0.35^a
No children	26	26	28	0.55^a
Primary dementia diagnosis	68	68	74	0.11^a
Number of serious diagnoses (R: 1–4)	2.0	2.0	2.0	0.15^b
	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)
Charlson Score (R: 1–12)	2.6	2.6	2.40	0.0000^b
	(1.5)	(1.5)	(1.0)
Palliative Performance Scale (R: 10–100)	31.5	31.3	35.1	0.23^b
	(9.7)	(9.7)	(9.1)
Unresponsive	14	15	11	0.18^a
Hospital referral	37	38	28	0.006^a
Hospice Delivery Characteristics
Home hospice	77	76	84	0.01^a
Length of service (R: 7–180 days)	52.6	46.4	132.2	0.90^b
	(49.8)	(44.6)	(44.9)
Number of nurse visits (R: 1–92)	9.9	9.5	15.4	0.0000^b
	(8.5)	(8.5)	(5.9)
Time from last nurse visit to discharge	2.3	2.0	5.4	0.0000^b
(R: 0–33 days)	(3.5)	(3.2)	(5.2)

. Chi square test.

. ANOVA . R=range. SD=standard deviation.