Hospital and patient characteristics †| One specialty | Two specialties | Three or more specialties | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
Male sex %, n = 2051 | 49.3 | 50.5 | 52.5 | 49.9 |
Age in years, mean (SD) | 57.7 (21.0) | 64.3 (19.7) | 66.6 (17.5) | 60.0 (20.7) |
Length of hospital stay in days, mean (SD/median) | 4.6 (5.3/3.0) | 8.3 (8.0/6.0) | 16.2 (16.6/12.0) | 6.7 (8.9/4.0) |
Urgent admissions %, n = 2727 | 46.3 | 69.2 | 76.5 | 54.1 |
Surgery during admission %, n = 1336 | 48.5 | 36.6 | 30.0 | 44.1 |
Admission to an intensive care unit %, n = 640 | 3.8 | 14.4 | 23.4 | 8.0 |
Hospital departments, column % | Â | Â | Â | Â |
- Surgery, n = 703 | 21.6 | 25.1 | 18.4 | 21.9 |
- Cardiology, n = 421 | 12.4 | 11.9 | 6.5 | 11.6 |
- Internal medicine, n = 863 | 13.7 | 20.2 | 24.5 | 16.2 |
- Orthopaedics, n = 255 | 13.2 | 5.3 | 7.3 | 11.0 |
- Neurology, n = 366 | 5.1 | 10.9 | 18.0 | 7.7 |
- Lung diseases, n = 374 | 5.9 | 7.3 | 6.1 | 6.2 |
- Ear, nose and throat, n = 91 | 5.1 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 3.7 |
- Urology, n = 127 | 6.1 | 3.4 | 2.3 | 5.2 |
- Other, n = 796 | 10.3 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 13.2 |
ICD-9 diagnostic groups, column %* | 12.6 | 10.9 | 11.8 | Â |
- Neoplasm’s, n = 649 | 12.6 | 10.9 | 11.8 | 12.2 |
- Nervous system and sensory organs, n = 105 | 3.7 | 1.9 | 2.5 | 3.3 |
- Circulatory system, n = 1051 | 17.9 | 27.6 | 27.7 | 20.8 |
- Respiratory system, n = 453 | 8.7 | 9.1 | 8.0 | 8.7 |
- Digestive system, n = 355 | 10.8 | 11.1 | 9.7 | 10.8 |
- Genitourinary system, n = 187 | 6.9 | 5.2 | 3.8 | 6.3 |
- Musculoskeletal system and connective tissue, n = 261 | 14.1 | 6.5 | 6.3 | 11.9 |
- Ill-defined conditions, n = 242 | 6.2 | 5.9 | 7.6 | 6.3 |
- Injury and poisoning, n = 320 | 8.7 | 11.1 | 12.5 | 9.5 |
- Other ‡, n = 374 | 10.2 | 10.5 | 9.9 | 9.3 |