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Table 5 Diagnoses for unplanned hospital admissions for invited patients (n=512), by response status

From: Frequent hospital admission of older people with chronic disease: a cross-sectional survey with telephone follow-up and data linkage

 

Admissions per patient

Bed days per admission

 

Respondents (n=102)

Non-respondents (n=410)

 

Respondents (n=421)

Non-respondents (n=1900)

 
 

Mean (se)

Mean (SE)

P value1

Median [max]

Median [max]

P value2

Primary Diagnosis

      

Coronary artery disease

0.97 (0.10)

0.84 (0.05)

0.193

3 [18]

3 [35]

0.339

COPD

0.84 (0.09)

0.84 (0.05)

0.929

5 [22]

5 [35]

0.466

Other Cardiovascular

0.29 (0.05)

0.31 (0.03)

0.860

6 [21]

5 [102]

0.650

Chest Pain (non-cardiac)

0.26 (0.05)

0.19 (0.02)

0.154

2 [18]

1 [43]

0.547

CHF

0.23 (0.05)

0.46 (0.03)

0.002

3 [31]

5 [57]

0.047

Diabetes

0.22 (0.05)

0.23 (0.02)

0.943

5 [38]

5 [55]

0.938

Hypertension

0.01 (0.01)

0.04 (0.01)

0.202

1 [1]

2 [7]

0.500

Influenza & Pneumonia

0.19 (0.04)

0.18 (0.02)

0.861

8 [19]

7 [30]

0.856

Other Respiratory

0.08 (0.03)

0.21 (0.02)

0.010

5 [29]

5 [38]

0.879

All other diseases

1.02 (0.10)

1.33 (0.06)

0.018

4 [36]

4 [57]

0.561

Primary and secondary diagnosis

      

Coronary artery disease

1.63 (0.13)

1.48 (0.06)

0.272

3 [28]

3.5 [53]

0.189

Hypertension

1.42 (0.12)

1.60 (0.06)

0.198

4 [38]

5 [102]

0.095

COPD

1.35 (0.12)

1.34 (0.06)

0.898

5 [31]

6 [57]

0.484

Diabetes

1.19 (0.11)

0.98 (0.05)

0.066

4 [38]

4 [102]

0.914

Congestive Heart failure

0.75 (0.09)

1.03 (0.05)

0.009

5 [31]

6 [57]

0.392

Any targeted ACS chronic admission (primary or secondary)

3.68 (0.19)

3.90 (0.10)

0.293

4 [38]

4.5 [102]

0.040

  1. 1 Results from Generalised Poisson Linear model with Log link.
  2. 2 Results from non-parametric Wilcoxon test of ranks.