Table 1.

Characteristics of Participants (N=337)

Variable	Overall	Patient Responses	Surrogate Responses	P-value
N	337	285	52
Demographics and Living Situation
Age (median [IQR])	76.4 [69.3, 84.6]	75.3 [67.3, 82.7]	83.2 [77.0, 89.0]	<0.001
Percent Female	211 (62.6)	178 (62.5)	33 (63.5)	1.000
Percent White	285 (84.6)	235 (82.5)	50 (96.2)	0.011
Percent Medicare	287 (85.2)	237 (83.2)	50 (96.2)	0.011
Living Situation Prior to Hospitalization (%)				<0.001
Home with family/ friend	179 (53.1)	148 (51.9)	31 (59.6)
Home alone	98 (29.1)	93 (32.6)	5 (9.6)
SNF or Other Hospital	19 (5.6)	16 (5.6)	3 (5.8)
Assisted Living Facility	41 (12.2)	28 (9.8)	13 (25.0)
Percent High School or Less	148 (43.9)	123 (43.2)	25 (48.1)	0.545
Brief Health Literacy Screen Score (median [IQR]) (3-15)	12.0 [9.0, 15.0]	12.5 [9.0, 15.0]	7.0 [5.0, 12.5]	<0.001
Health Status
Cognitive Status, BIMS (median [IQR]) (0-15)	14.0 [13.0, 15.0]	14.0 [13.0, 15.0]	9.00 [6.0, 12.0]	<0.001
Percent Dementia diagnosis	49 (14.5)	24 (8.4)	25 (48.1)	<0.001
Charlson Score (median [IQR])	6.0 [5.0, 9.0]	6.0 [5.0, 9.0]	6.5 [5.0, 8.3]	0.902
Medications
Count of Pre-hospital Medicines (median [IQR])	16.0 [12.0, 20.0]	17.0 [13.0, 21.0]	12.0 [9.8, 15.3]	<0.001
Proportion with hyper-polypharmacy (10 or more)	297 (88.1)	258 (90.5)	39 (75.0)	0.004
Count of PIMS (Beers) (median [IQR])	7.0 [5.0, 9.0]	7.0 [5.0, 9.0]	4.5 [4.0, 7.0]	<0.001
Prehospital DBI (median [IQR])	3.1 [1.8, 4.4]	3.2 [1.9, 4.7]	2.3 [1.5, 3.1]	<0.001
Help with medications (%)	219 (65.0)	170 (59.6)	49 (94.2)	<0.001
Difficulty paying for medications (%)	76 (22.9)	71 (25.2)	5 (10.0)	0.017
Count of scheduled pills/day (median [IQR])	17 [12, 22]	17 [13, 23]	13 [9, 17]	<0.001

Help with medication management includes those who receive staff assistance in an ALF care setting prior to hospitalization.

Difficulty Paying: Proportion reflects responses of “very difficult” or “somewhat difficult”