Coordinated care affects hospitalization and prognosis in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a cohort study

Table 1 Data for hospitalization, incidence and prevalence

Year	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Total number of patients followed up	413	418	413	457	418	414	433	457	514	543	559	572	570
Absolute number of patients admitted	328	354	367	422	358	222	181	202	193	198	216	192	216
Proportion of patients admitted (1)	79,42%	84,69%	88,86%	92,34%	85,65%	53,62%	41,80%	44,20%	37,55%	36,46%	38,64%	33,57%	37,89%
Annual number of stays (2)	469	498	566	581	546	290	209	232	220	236	261	231	266
Rehospitalization frequency index (3)	1,43	1,41	1,43	1,38	1,53	1,31	1,15	1,15	1,14	1,19	1,21	1,20	1,23
Risk of admission per patient index (4)	1,11	1,19	1,37	1,27	1,28	0,70	0,51	0,62	0,38	0,31	0,35	0,32	0,36
Ratio/emergency (5)	7,33%	7,18%	7,99%	4,60%	6,07%	6,28%	6,62%	6,67%	2,97%	3,75%	3,78%	4,14%	4,28%

¹- Ratio of number of patients admitted during 1 year/number of patients followed up in the same year by the network.
²- Total number of hospitalizations or stays, each stay was counted, even if a patient came back several times.
³ -Ratio of hospital stays to the number of patients admitted to hospital.
⁴- Ratio of hospital stays to the total number of patients followed up.
⁵- Ratio of patients admitted for uncontrolled emergency situations to the total number of patients followed up.

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