Table 2.

Association between hospital rural status and odds of mortality or good outcome in intracerebral hemorrhage patients admitted to US hospitals from 2010–2014

Variable	Rural hospitals versus urban hospitals
	All patients (model 1)				Patients without DNR/palliative care (model 2)
	Weighted N	OR	95% CI	p value	Weighted N	OR	95% CI	p value
In-hospital mortality
All patients	292,960	2.07	1.77–2.41	< 0.001	217,691	2.29	1.82–2.88	< 0.001
Patients residing in rural locations	49,681*	2.36	1.84–3.02	< 0.001	36,185*	2.70	1.94–3.77	< 0.001
Patients residing in urban locations	240,004*	1.72	1.11–2.68	0.015	179,100*	1.54	0.93–2.55	0.092
Good outcome (defined as routine home discharge)
All patients	219,963	0.97	0.83–1.12	0.664	189,863	0.96	0.83–1.13	0.687

DNR Do-not-resuscitate orders

All models adjusted for age, sex, race, income, insurance status, Elixhauser score, atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease, dementia, obesity, aphasia, cranial nerve palsy, coma, craniectomy, dysphagia, external ventricular drain/ventriculoperitoneal shunt, hemiplegia, any hydrocephalus, dyslipidemia, do not resuscitate, palliative care, smoking, tracheostomy, gastrostomy, mechanical ventilation, year, chronic alcohol abuse, coagulopathy, weekend admission, all patient refined diagnosis-related groups (APR-DRG) for mortality, APR-DRG for severity of illness, hospital teaching status, yearly intracerebral hemorrhage volume, hospital region, hospital bedsize

^*Weighted N does not add up to that of all patients because county of residence was unknown in 1.4% of patients