Table 3 Causes of delay by operative unit discipline
Cause of delay | Operative unit discipline | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | General surgery (n = 27) | Geriatrics (n = 35) | Internal medicine (n = 164) | Orthopaedics/traumatology (n = 87) | Long-term/rehabilitation (n = 190) | All (n = 503)* |
Awaiting acute/Rehabilitation hospital bed | 8 (29.6) | 4 (11.4) | 27 (16.5) | 20 (23.0) | 14 (7.4) | 73 (14.5) |
Awaiting hospital bed in a long-term/Rehabilitation unit | 10 (37.0) | 14 (40.0) | 69 (42.1) | 26 (29.9) | 0 (0.0) | 119 (23.7) |
Awaiting bed in a public/Private residential care home | 3 (11.1) | 10 (28.6) | 25 (15.2) | 19 (21.8) | 86 (45.3) | 143 (28.4) |
No caregiver/Caregiver does not accept hospital discharge | 6 (22.2) | 2 (5.7) | 26 (15.8) | 7 (8.0) | 43 (22.6) | 84 (16.7) |
House inappropriate for home care/Patient resides outside the region | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (1.2) | 5 (5.7) | 16 (8.4) | 23 (4.6) |
Awaiting home care/Unavailability of medical devices and medical equipments | 0 (0.0) | 5 (14.3) | 7 (4.3) | 5 (5.7) | 15 (7.9) | 32 (6.4) |
Delay in referral for social service assistance or general inefficiency in sheltered discharge procedure/Other | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 8 (4.9) | 5 (5.7) | 16 (8.4) | 29 (5.8) |