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Table 4 Principal diagnoses of hospital stays the year before and the year admission and proportion of stays of less than 1 day and stays with emergency admission

From: Impact of nursing home admission on health care use and disease status elderly dependent people one year before and one year after skilled nursing home admission based on 2012–2013 SNIIRAM data

Age (years)

Mean number of stays per person

<1 day

Emergency

 

Before

After

Before

After

Before

After

Number of stays

23,209

10,830

    

%

%

%

%

%

%

Diseases of the circulatory system

0,31

0,27

3.3

4.2

69.0

69.6

 Heart failure

0,08

0,11***

2.5

1.4

77.8

80.5

 Cerebral infarction

0,05

0,02***

1.7

2.1

81.6

82.1

Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes

0,30

0,27

3.9

9.5***

79.4

78.6

 Intracranial injury

0,03

0,03

9.7

26.3***

87.2

86.5

 Fracture of shoulder and upper arm

0,02

0,01

3.7

7.1

76.2

78.6

 Fracture of the femur

0,09

0,12***

1.0

2.4*

81.4

82.1

Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings. Not elsewhere classified

0,29

0,16***

10.5

24.2***

71.7

61.5***

 Ascites

0,00

0,01***

25.0

78.0**

62.5

9.8***

 Other symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems

0,07

0,01***

4.0

23.1***

70.6

60.0

 Other symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions and awareness

0,04

0,01***

16.6

44.8***

65.9

46.0***

 Malaise and fatigue

0,04

0,02***

11.0

14.0

78.5

67.5*

Mental and behavioral disorders

0,24

0,09***

17.7

46.3***

50.3

21.6***

 Alzheimer’s disease

0,07

0,03***

26.2

67.6***

39.6

7.4***

 Alcohol-related disorders

0,01

0,00***

2.2

57.1***

81.3

28.6**

 Depressive disorder

0,02

0,01***

13.6

32.3*

55.6

19.4***

Factors influencing health status and contact with health services

0,15

0,16**

45.6

66.7***

19.2

3.4***

 Encounter for follow-up examination after completed treatment for conditions other than malignant neoplasm

0,03

0,05***

89.3

90.6

0.3

0.7

 Encounter for care involving renal dialysis

0,00

0,01***

29.2

90.4***

NA

NA

 Encounter for other aftercare and medical care

0,02

0,03***

57.0

47.1*

6.8

8.6

Diseases of the respiratory system

0,14

0,20***

2.3

3.8*

75.0

76.0

 Pneumonia, unspecified organism

0,04

0,06***

2.6

4.0*

74.8

77.8

 Other chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

0,02

0,03***

1.3

3.2

77.5

76.9

 Respiratory failure. Not elsewhere classified

0,01

0,02***

1.6

3.8

78.6

75.2

Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue

0,13

0,05***

3.7

9.2***

60.1

38.2***

 Other disorders of muscle

0,04

0,00***

3.4

7.7*

84.0

84.6

Diseases of the digestive system

0,11

0,14***

10.7

10.8*

57.3

54.9

 Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia

0,02

0,03***

3.9

4.1

77.6

78.7

Diseases of the nervous system

0,10

0,06***

13.3

24.5***

54.3

54.1

 Parkinson’s disease

0,01

0,00

7.9

27.6**

45.2

27.6

 Epilepsy

0,01

0,02

2.0

4.0

80.9

80.8

Diseases of the genitourinary system

0,07

0,07

4.9

6.6

58.8

60.4

Endocrine diseases, nutritional and metabolic

0,05

0,04

4.3

10.5***

63.4

59.8

Diseases of the eye and adnexa

0,05

0,11

58.8

80.0***

3.7

1.2**

 Age-related cataract

0,04

0,09

65.3

83.3***

0.2

0.4

Neoplasms

0,05

0,07

16.7

32.3***

22.3

11.1***

 Other malignant neoplasm of skin

0,01

0,02

51.2

60.1

3.7

1.4

Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism

0,03

0,06

9.4

9.0

52.0

45.5***

Certain infectious and parasitic diseases

0,03

0,03

1.7

5.2*

72.2

74.7

Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue

0,02

0,03

8.8

21.3***

40.3

21.3***

 Ulcer of lower limb, not elsewhere classified

0,01

0,01

10.6

5.7

42.6

22.9*

  1. NA data not available for sample sizes <10
  2. Comparison before and after admission ***p < 0.001, ** < 0.01,* p < 0.05