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Table 1 Characteristics of hospital and long-term care wards in each cluster

From: Classification of long-term care wards and their functional characteristics: analysis of national hospital data in Japan

 

All n = 1856

Low medical acuity/high ADL n = 175

Medium medical acuity/high ADL n = 340

Medium medical acuity/low ADL n = 461

High medical acuity/low ADL n = 409

Mixed n = 471

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Mean ± SD or n (%)

Mean ± SD or n (%)

Mean ± SD or n (%)

Mean ± SD or n (%)

Mean ± SD or n (%)

Mean ± SD or n (%)

 

Characteristics of hospital

 Number of beds

121.9 ± 81.0

124.5 ± 98.5

109.5 ± 77.6

119.1 ± 77.2

118.3 ± 68.4

135.8 ± 88.0

< 0.001

Other wards in the hospital

 General ward

1121 (60.4%)

102 (58.3%)

200 (58.8%)

242 (52.5%)

289 (70.7%)

288 (61.1%)

< 0.001

 Sub-acute ward

263 (14.2%)

20 (11.4%)

47 (13.8%)

60 (13.0%)

75 (18.3%)

61 (13.0%)

< 0.001

 Rehabilitation ward

372 (20.0%)

36 (20.6%)

61 (17.9%)

108 (23.4%)

79 (19.3%)

88 (18.7%)

< 0.001

 Community integrated care ward

46 (2.5%)

0 (0%)

8 (2.4%)

13 (2.8%)

15 (3.7%)

10 (2.1%)

< 0.001

Characteristics of ward

 Number of beds

45.1 ± 13.0

40.9 ± 11.2

43.7 ± 11.8

45.1 ± 15.5

45.3 ± 12.3

47.5 ± 11.9

< 0.001

 Average length of stay

240.2 ± 144.0

154.6 ± 107.3

216.6 ± 138.1

295.7 ± 152.6

239.8 ± 128.9

229.1 ± 142.2

< 0.001

 Bed occupancy rate (%)

89.2 ± 13.5

83.9 ± 12.8

88.4 ± 13.6

91.5 ± 13.0

91.8 ± 13.1

87.4 ± 13.6

< 0.001

Hospitalization basic rate

 I (20:1 of patient to nurse ratio)

1087 (58.6%)

6 (3.4%)

275 (80.9%)

383 (83.1%)

351 (85.8%)

72 (15.3%)

< 0.001

 II (25:1 of patient to nurse ratio)

769 (41.4%)

169 (96.6%)

65 (19.1%)

78 (16.9%)

58 (14.2%)

399 (84.7%)

 

 Number of FTE nurses

30.9 ± 9.7

31.0 ± 12.0

32.4 ± 12.6

31.4 ± 8.4

32.0 ± 8.3

28.4 ± 7.9

< 0.001

 Number of FTE care workers

26.4 ± 8.4

25.5 ± 9.1

26.3 ± 8.3

27.4 ± 8.1

26.7 ± 8.6

25.4 ± 8.1

0.002

 Number of admitted patients in a month

8.5 ± 13.5

13.6 ± 15.6

10.1 ± 18.8

6.0 ± 8.0

8.4 ± 14.6

8.0 ± 10.7

< 0.001

Place before admission

 Other ward in same hospital (%)

59.3 ± 44.0

56.3 ± 44.4

54.2 ± 45.2

51.5 ± 44.7

70.5 ± 40.7

62.1 ± 43.0

< 0.001

 Other hospital (%)

21.7 ± 31.7

17.5 ± 27.5

19.2 ± 27.5

28.4 ± 35.5

19.0 ± 31.6

20.9 ± 31.4

< 0.001

 Long-term care facility (%)

4.9 ± 13.8

3.0 ± 8.4

4.8 ± 13.2

6.2 ± 17.3

3.9 ± 11.6

5.1 ± 13.9

0.054

 Home (%)

13.8 ± 24.0

22.9 ± 30.7

21.6 ± 29.5

13.3 ± 23.2

6.4 ± 15.4

11.4 ± 20.9

< 0.001

 Other (%)

0.3 ± 3.4

0.2 ± 2.6

0.2 ± 2.8

0.4 ± 4.2

0.1 ± 1.2

0.6 ± 4.6

0.309

 Number of discharged patients in a month

8.2 ± 10.7

13.1 ± 10.7

9.9 ± 16.8

5.8 ± 5.5

7.8 ± 11.6

8.0 ± 6.7

< 0.001

Place after discharge

 Other ward in same hospital (%)

14.2 ± 23.4

10.4 ± 18.2

16.0 ± 25.1

15.3 ± 25.5

12.8 ± 22.2

14.6 ± 22.6

0.064

 Other hospital (%)

11.8 ± 19.7

10.4 ± 15.3

13.0 ± 19.8

14.7 ± 24.5

8.7 ± 16.7

11.5 ± 17.7

< 0.001

 Long-term care facility (%)

14.5 ± 18.9

18.0 ± 18.2

12.9 ± 17.6

10.8 ± 19.8

12.6 ± 17.4

19.4 ± 21.1

< 0.001

 Home (%)

23.9 ± 26.7

48.1 ± 28.2

34.6 ± 29.5

16.1 ± 22.6

15.2 ± 20.7

22.2 ± 24.1

< 0.001

 Death (%)

34.9 ± 31.3

12.0 ± 20.8

22.4 ± 25.5

42.7 ± 33.9

50.2 ± 29.9

31.6 ± 27.4

< 0.001

 Other (%)

0.7 ± 5.7

1.0 ± 5.6

1.1 ± 8.6

0.5 ± 5.2

0.5 ± 3.7

0.6 ± 4.9

0.510

  1. SD standard deviation, FTE full time equivalent
  2. Percentages for each item were calculated after excluding missing values
  3. †analysis of variance (ANOVA); ‡ chi-squared test