Table 3.

Characteristics of patients with different values of IV (logged distance of the nearest 5 star SNF) compared to their respective zip code level median.

	Patients with IV < ZIP code level median	Patients with IV = ZIP code level median	Patients with IV > ZIP code level median
	190,767	857,869	254,848
Age	81.233	81.366	81.320
Language Spanish	0.012	0.012	0.012
Other language	0.013	0.013	0.014
Black	0.074	0.076	0.074
Hispanic	0.037	0.036	0.037
Other race	0.024	0.023	0.024
Female	0.651	0.650	0.649
Full dual-eligible	0.145	0.141	0.146
Partial dual-eligible	0.042	0.040	0.043
Married	0.360	0.362	0.361
Deyo-Charlson score	2.177	2.170	2.182
Elixhauserscore	3.389	3.389	3.388
Total ICU days	1.640	1.563	1.621
Total CCU days	0.591	0.628	0.613
Hospital length ofstay	6.759	6.826	6.856
Shortness ofbreath	0.212	0.210	0.212
ADL score (0–28, higher = worse)	17.000	17.130	17.143
CPS scale	1.345	1.336	1.357
Stroke	0.098	0.097	0.100
Lung disease	0.222	0.220	0.223
Alzheimer’s disease	0.043	0.043	0.045
Non-Alzheimer’s dementia	0.165	0.167	0.169
Hip fracture	0.085	0.082	0.082
Multiple sclerosis	0.003	0.003	0.003
Heart failure	0.202	0.200	0.203
Diabetes	0.302	0.297	0.299
Schizophrenia	0.006	0.006	0.006
Bipolar disease	0.010	0.010	0.009
Aphasia	0.013	0.014	0.014