. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 31.

Published in final edited form as: J Hosp Med. 2021 Jul;16(7):397–403. doi: 10.12788/jhm.3604

TABLE 1.

Participant Demographics and Clinical Characteristics for Preintervention Period (Epoch 0)

	Epoch 0: –12 to 0 months (n = 11,018)

Hospital units, No. (%)
Neurosciences	1,233 (11.2)
Medicine	2,552 (23.2)
Cardiology	1,309 (11.9)
Specialty surgery	1,297 (11.8)
General surgery	2,859 (26.0)
Hematology-oncology	649 (5.9)
Transplant	1,119 (10.2)

Age on admission, y
Mean (SD)	66.7 (10.8)
Median (IQR)	65 (58–73)

Female, No. (%)	5,255 (47.7)

Race/ethnicity, No. (%)
White, non-Hispanic	6,261 (56.8)
Hispanic	1,161 (10.5)
Black	975 (8.9)
Asian	1,710 (15.5)
Other	911 (8.3)

Admission category, No. (%)
Emergent	4,237 (38.5)
Urgent	2,285 (20.7)
Routine/transplant/unknown	4,496 (40.8)

Intensive care unit days, mean (SD)	0.27 (1.50)

Abbreviation: IQR, interquartile range.