Referral from secondary care and to aftercare in a tertiary care university hospital in Japan

Table 1 Characteristic of inpatients. Characteristics of a sample of 1,323 admissions of children and adolescents under 15 years of age from April 2004 to March 2005 at Niigata University Hospital. SD score for LOS was calculated for each patient with a DPC based on the following equation: $\frac{((a c t u a l L O S o f t h e p a t i e n t) - (a v e r a g e L O S o f t h e D P C))}{(S D o f t h e L O S o f t h e D P C)} .$

Characteristics	N or mean	%
Age at admission (mean ± SD, years)	4.6 ± 4.9
Gender, male	709	53.6
SD scores for LOS (mean ± SD)	-0.46 ± 3.66
Admissions	1,323
Number of actual patients	1,096
Referral from other medical facilities	513	38.8
Referral on discharge	1,275	96.4
Outpatient Department of Niigata University Hospital	1,096	82.8
Return to the primary paediatrician	153	11.6
Transfer to paediatric wards of other hospitals	26	2.0
Death during admission	17	1.3

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