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Table 1 Patient demographics of 456,676 in-patients between 2000 and 2013

From: Weekend effect on mortality by medical specialty in six secondary hospitals in the Helsinki metropolitan area over a 14-year period

 

Acute Psychiatry

Surgery

Otorhinolaryngology

Gynecology & Obstetrics

Internal Medicine

Pulmonology

Neurology

 

Pediatrics

Total patients

26,664

151,063

7664

79,889

126,218

29,228

12,966

 

22,984

Total deaths

104

4220

5

181

9591

2487

617

 

26

Crude mortality rate of specialty (%)

0.4

2.8

0.1

0.2

7.6

8.5

4.8

 

0.1

Male deaths (% of deaths)

81 (77.9)

2196 (52.0)

3 (60)

0 (0)

4777 (49.8)

1621 (65.2)

287 (46.5)

 

12 (46.2)

Deaths in age group (n)

  < 20 years old (% of all deaths)

0

11 (0.3)

0 (0)

0 (0)

25 (0.3)

3 (0.1)

0 (0)

0–1 years old

11 (42.3)

 20–39 (%)

19 (18.3)

32 (0.8)

0 (0)

6 (3.3)

83 (0.9)

13 (0.5)

5 (0.8)

1–2

4 (15.4)

 40–49 (%)

21 (20.2)

136 (3.2)

0 (0)

12 (6.6)

212 (2.2)

47 (1.9)

9 (1.5)

2–5

3 (11.5)

 50–59 (%)

28 (26.9)

365 (8.6)

0 (0)

44 (24.3)

693 (7.2)

251 (10.1)

36 (5.8)

5–10

4 (15.4)

 60–69 (%)

17 (16.3)

719 (17.0)

0 (0)

40 (22.1)

1294 (13.5)

650 (26.1)

91 (14.7)

10–15

3 (11.5)

 70+ (%)

19 (18.3)

2957 (70.1)

5 (100)

79 (43.6)

7284 (75.9)

1523 (61.2)

476 (77.1)

15–20

1 (3.8)

        

> 20

0 (0)

Emergency deaths (%)

81 (77.9)

3562 (84.4)

3 (60)

127 (70.2)

8574 (89.4)

2070 (83.2)

539 (87.4)

 

17 (65.4)