TABLE 3.

Survival Time Analysis

Median unique health care encounters, days	88 (45–161)
Inpatient	25 (7–53)
Ambulatory	54 (23–111)
Median health care encounter days as proportion of days alive with LVAD, %	23.2 (16.3–32.4)
Inpatient	6.0 (2.1–14.1)
Ambulatory	15.0 (10.7–20.0)
Median time receiving care, hours	592 (197–1,257)
Inpatient	496 (131–1,141)
Ambulatory	31.5 (9.5–80.0)
Median time receiving care as proportion of time alive with LVAD, %	5.6 (2.2–12.7)
Inpatient	4.6 (1.9–12.4)
Ambulatory	0.3 (0.2–0.6)

Values are median (IQR).

Abbreviation as in Table 2.