Table 2 Patient routing
MPU-eligible (N = 65) | PCS-only (N = 86) | P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hospital entry | P = .015 | ||||
- emergency room | 46 | 71% | 38 | 44% | |
- from home | 3 | 5% | 7 | 8% | |
- outpatient clinic | 11 | 17% | 26 | 30% | |
- referred from other hospital | 5 | 8% | 14 | 16% | |
- other | 0 | 0% | 1 | 1% | |
Days until psychiatric consultation, median (min-max) | 1 | 0–84 | 5 | 0–51 | P = .000 |
Specialism requesting consult | P = .002 | ||||
- internal medicine | 22 | 34% | 11 | 13% | |
- general surgery | 6 | 9% | 14 | 16% | |
- gastroenterology | 5 | 8% | 10 | 12% | |
- traumatology | 7 | 11% | 8 | 9% | |
- neurology | 9 | 14% | 2 | 2% | |
- neurosurgery | 2 | 3% | 8 | 9% | |
- ear, nose, throat | 0 | 0% | 10 | 12% | |
- other | 14 | 27% | 23 | 27% | |
Number of wards per admission, median (min-max) | 1 | 1–8 | 1 | 1–10 | NA |
Admission on ICU, % | 9 | 14% | 23 | 27% | P = .046 |
Days at ICU, median (min-max) | 0 | 0–13 | 0 | 0–54 | NA |
Admission on high care, % | 1 | 1% | 4 | 5% | NA |
Days at high care, median (min-max) | 2 | – | 0 | 0–11 | P = .532 |
Admitted at medium care, % | 0 | 0% | 3 | 4% | NA |
Days at medium care, median (min-max) | – | – | 0 | 0–30 | NA |
Total length of stay, median days (min-max) | 6 | 1–104 | 15 | 0–116 | NA |
Disposition location | NA | ||||
- home | 44 | 68% | 46 | 54% | |
- nursing home | 2 | 3% | 14 | 16% | |
- revalidation | 1 | 2% | 6 | 7% | |
- other hospital | 1 | 2% | 2 | 2% | |
- psychiatric hospital | 8 | 12% | 0 | 0% | |
- died | 4 | 6% | 11 | 13% | |
- other | 5 | 8% | 6 | 7% | |
Readmission within 1 month | 5 | 9% | 20 | 27% | NA |