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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Psychiatr Res. 2020 Oct 30;136:515–521. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.10.024

Table 2.

Sample Descriptives

N %
Total 3,091 100.0%
Sex
Female 1,628 52.7%
Male 1,463 47.3%
Race/Ethnicity
White, Non-Hispanic 2,094 67.7%
Hispanic 437 14.1%
Black, Non-Hispanic 338 10.9%
Asian 140 4.5%
Native American / Alaska Native 13 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander 4 0.1%
Other 143 4.6%
Age
18–39 487 15.8%
40–64 1,275 41.2%
≥ 65 1,329 43.0%
Psychiatric diagnoses
Psychotic disorder1 1,689 54.6%
Depression2 1,332 43.1%
Bipolar disorder3 502 16.2%
Comorbid medical conditions
Hypertension 1,712 55.4%
Fluid or electrolyte disorder 1,398 45.2%
Cardiac arrhythmia 1,225 39.6%
Anemia 1,189 38.5%
Chronic ischemic heart disease 1,006 32.5%
Renal failure 813 26.3%
Chronic pulmonary disease 750 24.3%
Congestive heart failure 519 16.8%
van Walraven Score5
≥ 20 1,299 42.0%
10–19 682 22.1%
0–10 857 27.7%
Substance use disorder
Nicotine use 359 11.6%
Drug abuse 343 11.1%
Alcohol abuse 254 8.2%
Medications6
Antidepressant 1,060 67.3%
Anxiolytic 928 58.9%
Antipsychotic 745 47.3%
Mood stabilizer 150 9.5%
1

Corresponding to ICD-9 296.00–296.89, 296.40– 296.89; ICD-10 F31.0–31.9

2

Corresponding to ICD-9 296.20–296.36; ICD-10 F32–33.x

3

Corresponding to ICD-9 295.xx; ICD-10 F20.x, F25.x.

5

Summary numeric score derived from Elixhauser comorbidity classification system corresponding to overall disease burden and in-hospital mortality

6

Information on medications was only available for 1,576 patients. Classification tree analyses used median imputation for missing values.