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Table 6 Number of patients in each disease cohort: regardless of primary diagnosis

From: Weekend admissions may be associated with poorer recording of long-term comorbidities: a prospective study of emergency admissions using administrative data

Condition	Number of patients^a
Condition	Admitted on weekday	Admitted at weekend	Total
Chronic pulmonary disease	93,482	30,624	124,106
Diabetes	82,325	26,549	108,874
Congestive heart failure	28,551	9562	38,113
Dementia	22,430	8997	31,427
Hemiplegia / paraplegia	5776	2054	7830
Metastatic cancer	4853	1446	6299

^aPatients with at least two emergency admissions with the relevant condition recorded between 2009 and 2011 and a further admission in 2011–2013

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