Table 3 Unjustified and sometimes justified hospitalization rates (2014 to 2016)
From: Measuring medically unjustified hospitalizations in Switzerland
Age (Years) | Pro- gram- med | Eligible stays | Unjustified stays | Sometimes justified stays | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All hospitals | Reference hospitals | Surplus | All hospitals | Reference hospitals | Surplus | |||
01-16 | no | 37,234 | 33.4% | 32.1% | 478 | 26.1% | 25.2% | 344 |
01-16 | yes | 5,685 | 46.4% | 40.7% | 322 | 21.4% | 20.8% | 33 |
16-50 | no | 158,202 | 26.1% | 22.7% | 5,271 | 26.4% | 23.5% | 4,622 |
16-50 | yes | 32,081 | 33.6% | 27.4% | 1,979 | 28.0% | 27.3% | 231 |
51-70 | no | 173,053 | 19.1% | 16.2% | 5,019 | 23.2% | 19.8% | 5,843 |
51-70 | yes | 37,443 | 29.8% | 25.1% | 1,750 | 27.6% | 25.6% | 749 |
71-80 | no | 139,520 | 11.0% | 9.2% | 2,459 | 23.2% | 19.2% | 5,538 |
71-80 | yes | 25,568 | 18.1% | 15.9% | 567 | 28.7% | 24.6% | 1,036 |
> 80 | no | 190,536 | 6.7% | 5.4% | 2,463 | 20.8% | 16.6% | 8,013 |
> 80 | yes | 23,774 | 10.7% | 8.9% | 438 | 25.3% | 20.5% | 1,139 |
Global | 823,096 | 17.8% | 15.3% | 20,744 | 24.0% | 20.6% | 27,547 | |
(proportion) | (2.52%) | (3.35%) | ||||||