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Table 1 Rates of acute hospital admissions in a nursing home population and the corresponding community dwelling population

From: Acute hospital admissions among nursing home residents: a population-based observational study

 

Nursing home population 2007-2008

Community-dwelling population 2007-2008*

 

Total

Men

Women

Total

Men

Women

 

Person-years

Admissions ( n )

Mean annual admission rate

Person-years

Admissions ( n )

Mean annual admission rate

Person-years

Admissions ( n )

Mean annual admission rate

Person-years

Admissions ( n )**

Mean annual admission rate

Person-years

Admissions ( n )

Mean annual admission rate

Person-years

Admissions ( n )

Mean annual admission rate

Total

3 927

2 451

0.6

1 129

930

0.8

2 798

1 521

0.5

58 196

15 052

0.3

23 781

6 574

0.3

37 230

8 478

0.2

67-79 years

740

531

0.7

316

274

0.9

424

257

0.6

39 296

6 767

0.2

17 268

3 471

0.2

21 712

3 296

0.2

80-89 years

1 941

1 322

0.7

586

493

0.8

1 354

829

0.6

16 690

6 787

0.4

5 995

2 685

0.5

10 110

4 102

0.4

90+ years

1 246

598

0.5

227

163

0.7

1 019

435

0.4

2 210

1 498

0.7

518

418

0.8

1 465

1 080

0.7

  1. Notes: *The number of person-years for the community-dwelling population is based on the mean numbers from Table 05277 from Statistics Norway (2007 and 2009).
  2. **The overall number of admissions minus the admissions from the nursing home population.