Table 2 Comparison of outcomes before and after ED segmentation
Variables | 2011 | 2012 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Before: winter 2011 | Before: summer 2011 | p | OR | Before: winter 2012 | After: summer 2012 | p | OR | |
(19,799 patients) | (22,524 patients) | (18,795 patients) | (22,204 patients) | |||||
24-hours in-hospital mortality - n (%) | 70 (0.4 %) | 62 (0.3 %) | ns | 0.78 [0.54–1.11] | 84 (0.4 %) | 60 (0.3 %) | ** | 0.60 [0.43–0.85] |
30-days in-hospital mortality - n (%) | 313 (1.6 %) | 313 (1.4 %) | ns | 0.88 [0.75–1.03] | 307 (1.6 %) | 259 (1.2 %) | ** | 0.71 [0.60–0.84] |
In-hospital mortality - n (%) | 340 (1.5 %) | 340 (1.5 %) | ns | 0.88 [0.75–1.02] | 333 (1.8 %) | 284 (1.3 %) | ** | 0.72 [0.61–0.85] |