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Table 5 Use of hospital inpatient care in people with MS during the 10-year period distributed by department: number and proportion of users, mean (sd), median (IQR) and range of inpatient days

From: A 10-year population-based study of people with multiple sclerosis in Stockholm, Sweden: use of and satisfaction with care and the value of different factors in predicting use of care

Department

Users, n (%)

Mean (sd)

Median (IQR)

Range

Total

93 (77)

30 (47)

12 (4–37)

1–302

Neurology

39 (32)

23 (33)

12 (5–25)

1–167

Rehabilitation

38 (31)

38 (41)

26 (20–39)

2–222

Medicine

31 (26)

11 (12)

6 (3–16)

1–49

Surgery

30 (25)

12 (23)

5 (3–14)

1–132

Urology

16 (13)

21 (32)

6 (2–33)

1–120

Orthopedic

15 (12)

7 (8)

5 (2–8)

1–35

Infection

13 (11)

13 (19)

7 (4–15)

1–71

Geriatrics

10 (8)

17 (10)

14 (10–26)

6–37

Obstetrics and gynecology

6 (5)

7 (6)

6 (4–10)

1–18

Other inpatient carea

11 (9)

42 (82)

7 (4–98)

2–189

  1. aIncludes departments which less than 5 % of the people with MS had been in contact with