Hospital characteristicsa | |
Inpatient admissions (n) | 4048 |
Hospital deaths n (%) | 2025 (50.0) |
Type of hospital n (%) | |
University hospital | 799 (19.7) |
Tertiary teaching | 1642 (40.6) |
General | 1607 (39.7) |
Patient characteristicsa,b | |
Male sex % | 50.2 |
Age (y), mean (SD) | 60.5 (20.9) |
Charlson index of comorbidity % | |
Score > =3 | 3.7 |
Admission characteristicsa,b | |
Length of hospital stay (d), mean (SD/median) | 6.3 (14.6/3) |
Urgently admitted patients % | 54.7 |
Admission is a readmission % | 26.7 |
Admission is followed by an unplanned readmission % | 17.7 |
Hospital departments %, | |
Surgery | 21.7 |
Cardiology | 13.7 |
Internal medicine | 18.7 |
Orthopaedics | 11.2 |
Neurology | 6.8 |
Lung diseases | 6.9 |
Ear, nose and throat | 3.6 |
Urology | 4.9 |
Other | 12.6 |
Presence of adverse eventsa,b | |
One or more positive screening criteria in record n (%) | 2632 (44.7) |
Adverse events n (%) | 390 (7.1) |
Preventable adverse events n (%) | 108 (1.6) |