Hospital use of young children in Switzerland: A nation-wide study based on a complete survey over 4 years

Table 1 Study population and hospitalization discharges per 1000 children on medstat level.

	Population	Hospital discharges per 1000 children per year
		mean [median]	range	SD
Total	387'181	66.1 [61.8]	16.2 – 252.9	25.1
Sex
female	198'734	57. 8^a [54.6]	10.0 – 224.7	24.1
male	188'447	74.0^b [68.9]	21.9 – 281.2	29.2
Rurality
Inner city	92'183	74.2^a [70.0]	17.5 – 172.3	29.7
Village	162'641	68.3^b [64.7]	16.2 – 238.0	24.7
Rural areas	132'357	60.9^b [57.5]	21.7 – 252.9	22.4
Residential status
Swiss resident	286'612	61.2^a [57.9]	10.7 – 217.9	21.1
Non Swiss resident	100'569	86.6^b [77.4]	9.2 – 255.5	43.2
Language region
German	274'467	62.2^a [58.3]	16.2 – 160.1	21.4
French	97'679	77.6^b [70.6]	32.1 – 252.9	32.9
Italian	15'035	89.9^c [89.4]	57.5 –129.1	19.9

^{a, b, c}Values with different superscripts have significantly different means [p < 0.05]

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