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Table 1 Comparison between deceased patients and survivors

From: Healthcare utilization after a first hospitalization for COPD: a new approach of State Sequence Analysis based on the '6W' multidimensional model of care trajectories

 

Total

n = 3197

Deceased

n = 616

Survivors (Study cohort)

n = 2581

P-Value

Sex, n (%)

<.0001

 Female

1673 (52.3)

278 (45.1)

1395 (54.0)

 Male

1524 (47.7)

338 (54.9)

1186 (46.0)

Age, mean (SD)

72.1 (8.6)

74.4 (7.9)

71.6 (8.7)

<.0001

Rurality,an (%)

0.7778

 Metropolitan area

1855 (58.8)

351 (59.8)

1504 (58.5)

 Small town

540 (17.1)

101 (17.2)

439 (17.1)

 Rural area

761 (24.1)

135 (23.0)

626 (24.4)

Material Deprivation,b n (%)

0.1771

 Quartile 1

449 (15.0)

96 (17.3)

353 (14.4)

 Quartile 2–3

1510 (50.3)

277 (50.0)

1233 (50.3)

 Quartile 4

1045 (34.8)

181 (32.7)

864 (35.3)

Social Deprivation,b n (%)

0.5804

 Quartile 1

529 (17.6)

91 (16.4)

438 (17.9)

 Quartile 2–3

1434 (47.7)

262 (47.3)

1172 (47.8)

 Quartile 4

1041 (34.6)

201 (36.3)

840 (34.3)

GP affiliation, n (%)

2242 (70.1)

449 (72.9)

1793 (69.5)

0.0956

Combined CI, median (IQR)

4 (2–6)

5 (2–8)

3 (1–6)

<.0001

Length of stay, median (IQR)

5 (3–9)

6 (3–13)

5 (3–8)

<.0001

NIRRU, mean (SD)

1.22 (1.20)

1.58 (1.56)

1.13 (1.08)

<.0001

Severity index, n (%)

<.0001

 Weak

470 (14.7)

36 (5.8)

434 (16.8)

 Moderate

1186 (37.1)

173 (28.1)

1013 (39.2)

 High

1132 (35.4)

254 (41.2)

878 (34.0)

 Extreme

409 (12.8)

153 (24.8)

256 (9.9)

  1. aMissing: n = 41
  2. bMissing: n = 193