Table 2 Descriptive statistics (n = 723)
Country | Public Hospital | Medical Care Corporation Hospital | Non-Profit Proprietary Hospital | Mean | SD | p a | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | % | n | % | ||||
No. of patients | 315 | 254 | 154 | ||||||
Age | 58 | 59 | 56 | 58.0 | 16.73 | 0.442 | |||
Age category 1: 18–24 | 8 | 2.5 | 8 | 3.1 | 5 | 3.2 | |||
Age category 2: 25–44 | 54 | 17.1 | 38 | 15.0 | 36 | 23.4 | |||
Age category 3: 45–64 | 131 | 41.6 | 101 | 39.8 | 54 | 35.1 | |||
Age category 4: >65 | 122 | 38.7 | 107 | 42.1 | 59 | 38.3 | |||
Sex | 0.387 | ||||||||
Male | 280 | 88.9 | 234 | 92.1 | 137 | 89.0 | |||
Female | 35 | 11.1 | 20 | 7.9 | 17 | 11.0 | |||
LoS (days) | 2.6 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 1.97 | 1.01 | <0.001 | |||
LoS 1 day | 23 | 7.3 | 180 | 70.9 | 82 | 53.2 | |||
LoS 2 days | 114 | 36.2 | 58 | 22.8 | 45 | 29.2 | |||
LoS 3 days | 145 | 46.0 | 14 | 5.5 | 21 | 13.6 | |||
LoS 4 days | 29 | 9.2 | 2 | 0.8 | 3 | 1.9 | |||
LoS 5 days | 4 | 1.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 1.9 | |||
No. diagnoses | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.66 | 0.94 | <0.033 | |||
No. procedures | 1.04 | 1.04 | 1.02 | 1.04 | 0.16 | 0.670 | |||