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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of study patients

Characteristic	Prompted (N=140)	Control (N=125)	Pvalue
Age (years), mean (SD)	58.5 (17.8)	57.3 (17.8)	0.60
Gender (male), no. (%)	69 (49.3)	51 (40.8)	0.17
Race, no. (%)
White	71 (50.7)	69 (55.2)
African American	47 (33.6)	42 (33.6)	0.54
Hispanic/Other	22 (15.7)	14 (11.2)
Mechanical Ventilation, no. (%)	36 (28.8)	41 (29.3)	0.93
APACHE IV predicted hospital mortality, no. (%)	31.1 (22.2)	27.2 (21.7)	0.86

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