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Table 1 Data collection from different registers

From: Health status and health care utilization after discharge from geriatric in-hospital stay – description of a register-based study

Variables

Patient records

Health care consumption

Statistics Sweden

Demographics

 Age

x

  

 Sex

x

 

x

 Marital status

  

x

 Living alone/together

  

x

 Education

  

x

 Occupation

  

x

 Income

  

x

 Place of birth

  

x

Diagnoses and drugs

 Type of diagnoses

x

x

 

 Type of drugs

x

  

Physical examinations

 Blood pressure

x

  

 Body temperature

x

  

 Saturation

x

  

Blood samples

 Electrolytes

x

  

 Haemoglobin

x

  

 C-reactive protein

x

  

 Kidney function*

x

  

Risk screening

 Malnutrition

x

  

 Fall

x

  

 Pressure ulcer

x

  

Physical function

 ADL

x

  

 Mobility*

x

  

Care process:

   

 Admitted from

x

  

 Discharged to

x

  

Hospital care

 Length of stay

x

x

 

 Type of admission

 

x

 

 Time to admission

 

x

 

 Type of intervention

 

x

 

Primary care

 Type of visit

 

x

 

 Time to visit

 

x

 

 Type of caregiver

 

x

 

 Type of intervention

 

x

 
  1. Abbreviation: ADL Activities of daily living, * = only cohort 2016