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Table 3 Drug-related hospital admissions per category

From: Drug-related admissions and hospital-acquired adverse drug events in Germany: a longitudinal analysis from 2003 to 2007 of ICD-10-coded routine data

Category

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

Total

 

Rate

Number

Rate

Number

Rate

Number

Rate

Number

Rate

Number

Rate

A.1

0.06%

9546

0.10%

14728

0.10%

14867

0.12%

18287

0.11%

17664

0.10%

A.2

0.22%

36614

0.23%

34894

0.23%

34194

0.20%

30689

0.20%

31842

0.22%

B.1

0.08%

13676

0.10%

14958

0.09%

13582

0.11%

16840

0.07%

10424

0.09%

B.2

0.04%

6188

0.03%

5172

0.03%

4823

0.03%

4857

0.03%

4697

0.03%

C

0.14%

22883

0.16%

24394

0.18%

27082

0.20%

30699

0.22%

34623

0.19%

D

1.09%

181152

1.19%

179801

1.17%

175682

1.24%

187583

1.40%

218105

1.23%

E

2.95%

490194

3.10%

469040

3.16%

474140

3.36%

509535

3.10%

482905

3.14%

A - E

4.58%

760252

4.91%

742987

4.97%

744369

5.26%

798490

5.14%

800260

4.98%

Total number of in-patients

16598546

 

15127645

 

14989953

 

15181779

 

15559359

 
  1. The rate is the proportion of the sample from the respective year. The absolute number of in-patients within each category is a linear extrapolation from the sample to the target population (Germany). The total rate is the weighted average for the years 2003 to 2007.