Table 1 Summary statistics and discharge destination after hospital discharge according to the characteristics of the study population.
From: Predictors of Long-Term Care Utilization by Dutch Hospital Patients aged 65+
| Categories | n | Percentage of total sample |
No formal care (n = 210,972) |
Home Care (n = 42,418) |
Home for the elderly (n = 2,918) |
Nursing home (n = 6,131) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age, years (mean = 74.23, SD = 6.39) | ||||||||
| 65-74 | 149,750 | 57.1% | 85.3% | 12.9% | 0.5% | 1.4% | ||
| 75-84 | 99,242 | 37.8% | 75.1% | 20.2% | 1.6% | 3.2% | ||
| 84+ | 13,447 | 5.1% | 64.7% | 23.6% | 4.5% | 7.2% | ||
| Sex | ||||||||
| Male | 132,326 | 50.4% | 82.8% | 14.2% | 0.8% | 2.2% | ||
| Female | 130,113 | 49.6% | 77.9% | 18.2% | 1.5% | 2.5% | ||
| Family situation | ||||||||
| Living Alone | 70,596 | 26.9% | 73.4% | 20.4% | 2.6% | 3.6% | ||
| Spouse | 186,674 | 71.1% | 83.1% | 14.4% | 1.8% | 0.7% | ||
| Child | 18,604 | 7.1% | 81.2% | 0.6% | 15.8% | 2.5% | ||
| Hospitalization duration, days (median = 4, SD = 13.79) | ||||||||
| 01-10 | 190,094 | 72.4% | 87.3% | 11.2% | 0.6% | 0.8% | ||
| 11-20 | 40,824 | 15.6% | 66.1% | 27.7% | 2.2% | 4.1% | ||
| 20+ | 31,521 | 12.0% | 57.1% | 31.1% | 2.5% | 9.3% | ||
| Diagnoses | ||||||||
| Intestinal, stomach and rectum cancer | 5,744 | 2.2% | 49.8% | 46.1% | 1.6% | 2.6% | ||
| Lung cancer | 2,957 | 1.1% | 45.8% | 50.1% | 1.3% | 2.9% | ||
| Uterus cancer | 662 | 0.3% | 65.1% | 32.0% | 1.7% | 1.2% | ||
| Ovary cancer | 414 | 0.2% | 48.1% | 47.3% | 1.9% | 2.7% | ||
| Prostate cancer | 3,351 | 1.3% | 77.1% | 20.2% | 0.8% | 2.0% | ||
| Bladder cancer | 2,538 | 1.0% | 74.2% | 23.9% | 0.6% | 1.3% | ||
| Diabetes mellitus | 10,720 | 4.1% | 68.1% | 26.3% | 1.5% | 4.1% | ||
| Dementia | 1,064 | 0.4% | 48.9% | 26.5% | 4.6% | 20.0% | ||
| Schizophrenia | 640 | 0.2% | 52.2% | 28.1% | 3.8% | 15.9% | ||
| Alzheimer's disease | 240 | 0.1% | 57.1% | 23.8% | 2.9% | 16.3% | ||
| Epilepsy | 1,087 | 0.4% | 67.3% | 22.6% | 2.2% | 7.8% | ||
| Heart Failure | 8,688 | 3.3% | 65.0% | 29.4% | 2.3% | 3.3% | ||
| Cerebrovascular diseases | 9,411 | 3.6% | 61.5% | 17.9% | 1.4% | 19.2% | ||
| Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) | 9,107 | 3.5% | 68.3% | 27.6% | 1.5% | 2.6% | ||
| Alcoholic liver disease | 153 | 0.1% | 54.3% | 34.6% | 2.6% | 8.5% | ||
| Infections of skin | 915 | 0.4% | 67.2% | 28.4% | 1.2% | 3.2% | ||
| Coxarthrosis | 9,220 | 3.5% | 62.3% | 29.6% | 3.4% | 4.7% | ||
| Gonarthrosis | 6,910 | 2.6% | 70.3% | 23.1% | 2.1% | 4.5% | ||
| Glomerular disorders | 1,329 | 0.5% | 68.9% | 29.0% | 1.0% | 1.1% | ||
| Intracranial injury | 1,557 | 0.6% | 72.9% | 17.4% | 2.2% | 7.5% | ||
| Fracture of elbow and forearm | 1,188 | 0.5% | 67.9% | 24.4% | 2.5% | 5.1% | ||
| Fracture of femur | 4,327 | 1.7% | 46.2% | 29.9% | 5.5% | 18.4% | ||
| Fracture of ankle or lower leg | 1,141 | 0.4% | 57.6% | 26.7% | 4.8% | 10.9% | ||
| Strictly other diagnoses | 190,010 | 72.4% | 86.6% | 11.8% | 0.7% | 0.9% | ||