In-hospital mortality and routine disposition among hospitalizations for ischemic stroke by intervention group and age (N weighted = 3,121), Nationwide Inpatient Sample, 1999–2008.

*Model 1: Average Marginal Prediction: percentage estimates are adjusted for survey design as well as model covariates (gender, hospital region (Northeast, Midwest, South, or West), hospital location and status (urban-teaching, urban-nonteaching, and rural), type of admission (emergency, urgent, elective), admission status (emergency room, transfer from another hospital, transfer from long term care, and routine), payer (public, private, and others), hospital bed size (small, medium, and large), congestive heart failure, peripheral vascular disease, hypertension, paralysis, other neurological disorders, chronic pulmonary disease, diabetes with chronic complications, renal failure, coagulopathy, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, acute myocardial infarction, and deep venous thrombosis.**Model 2: Average Marginal Prediction: percentage estimates are adjusted for survey design as well as model covariates (all variables in the model 1 + length of stay (days, continuous) and total charges (US dollars, continuous).