Variable type	Scale of measurement
hospital days per decident	quantitative	interval
number of deaths among chronically ill patients assigned to the hospital	quantitative	ratio
percent of deaths occurring in the hospital	quantitative	ratio
number of physician visits per decident in the last 6 months of life	quantitative
home health agency visits per decedent in the last 2 years of life,	quantitative
hospice days per decedent in the last 6 months of life,	quantitative
number of different physicians seen per decedent in the last 6 months of life,	quantitative
city	Categorical
state	Categorical