Table 3 Characteristics of medical and neurological patients
Patient characteristics | medical patients | neurological patients |
|---|---|---|
N = 1432 | N = 464 | |
Age: mean (SD); median [IQR] | 66.2 (16.0); 69 [21] | 64.0 (17.7); 68 [24] |
Number of men (%) | 58.7 | 57.3 |
CD-10 main diagnosis (%) | ||
Infectious and parasitic diseases | 13.3 | 3.4 |
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases | 3.2 | 0.9 |
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue | 0.9 | – |
Diseases of the respiratory system | 12.2 | 0.2 |
Diseases of the eye and adnexa | – | 1.1 |
Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism | 1.9 | 0.2 |
Diseases of the circulatory system | 27.7 | 36.4 |
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue | 3.5 | 1.7 |
Diseases of the nervous system | 0.7 | 39.4 |
Diseases of the ear and mastoid process | 0.3 | 4.7 |
Diseases of the genitourinary system | 3.8 | 0.4 |
Diseases of the digestive system | 11.1 | 0.4 |
Neoplasms | 10.1 | 1.7 |
Mental and behavioral disorders | 2.0 | 2 .4 |
Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium | 0.1 | – |
Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings | 6.8 | 6.3 |
Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes | 2.7 | 0.6 |
PACD day-1: mean (SD); median [IQR] | 7.0 (4.8); 6 [7] | 4.8 (4.2); 3.5 [5] |
SPIa first assessment ward: mean (SD); median [IQR]; | 35.6 (6.0); 38 [6] n = 1342 | 34.5 (7.3); 38 [8] n = 402 |
Active medical problems: mean (SD); median [IQR] | 3.2 (1.7); 3 [2] | 1.5 (1.0); 1 [1] |
Discharge from the hospital to (%): | ||
Home | 89.4 | 78.7 |
Nursing homeb | 4.0 | 1.1 |
Home for the elderlyb | 1.0 | 0.2 |
Rehabilitationb | 5.6 | 20.0 |