Table 2 Descriptive statistics for patients admitted to MAW in the period 2014 to 2020, N = 16 786
Patients intended for MAW admission, N = 16786n (%) | Extended diagnostics, n = 1779 n (%) | Transfer to hospital, n = 2406n (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Treatment (missing:913) | ||||||
Oral medication | 9682 (57.7) | 1146 (64.4) | 1306 (54.3) | |||
Intravenous fluid therapy | 5482 (32.7) | 1275 (71.7) | 943 (39.2) | |||
Intravenous medication | 4658 (27.7) | 481 (27.0) | 868 (36.2) | |||
Mobilisation and pain relief | 3755 (22.4) | 482 (27.0) | 439 (18.2) | |||
Observation | 2949 (17.6) | 367 (20.6) | 461 (18.7) | |||
Oxygen therapy | 1763 (10.5) | 196 (11.1) | 404 (16.8) | |||
Nebuliser therapy | 1904 (11.4) | 201 (11.3) | 301 (12.5) | |||
Emptying regime/constipation | 790 (4.7) | 69 (3.9) | 98 (4.1) | |||
Bladder catheterisation | 477 (2.8) | 48 (2.7) | 78 (3.2) | |||
Wound therapy | 467 (2.8) | 50 (2.8) | 51 (2.1) | |||
Blood transfusion | 433 (2.6) | 10 (0.6) | 11 (0.5) | |||
Nutritional therapy | 355 (2.1) | 32 (1.8) | 58 (2.4) | |||
Physical therapy | 199 (1.1) | 31 (1.7) | 14 (0.6) | |||
ICPC-2 main groups (missing:873) | ||||||
Respiratory | 3814 (22.7) | 492 (33.4) | 595 (24.7) | |||
Musculoskeletal | 2633 (15.7) | 375 (21.1) | 334 (13.9) | |||
Digestive | 1619 (9.6) | 114 (6.4) | 300 (12.5) | |||
Urological | 1504 (9.0) | 157 (8.8) | 253 (10.5) | |||
Endocrine/ metabolic and nutritional | 1362 (8.1) | 78 (4.4) | 177 (7.4) | |||
General and unspecified | 1318 (7.8) | 111 (6.3) | 233 (9.7) | |||
Psychological | 978 (5.8) | 64 (3.6) | 113 (4.7) | |||
Cardiovascular | 603 (3.6) | 85 (4.8) | 114 (4.7) | |||
Blood, blood forming organs and immune mechanism | 604 (3.6) | 12 (6.7) | 31 (1.3) | |||
Neurological | 585 (3.5) | 75 (4.2) | 69 (2.9) | |||
Skin | 573 (3.4) | 60 (3.4) | 86 (3.6) | |||
Pregnancy, childbearing, family planning | 163 (1.0) | 36 (2.0) | 17 (0.7) | |||
Female genital | 41 (0.2) | 1 (< 0.0) | 11 (0.5) | |||
Male genital | 38 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | 8 (0.3) | |||
Social Problems | 38 (0.2) | 3 (< 0.0) | 2 (0.1) | |||
Ear | 33 (0.2) | 2 (< 0.0) | 1 (< 0.0) | |||
Eye | 7 (< 0.1) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.1) | |||
Comorbidities (missing:0) | ||||||
No comorbidities | 14,078 (83.9) | 1447 (81.3) | 2027 (84.2) | |||
One comorbidity | 2212 (14.4) | 298 (16.8) | 338 (14.1) | |||
Two comorbidies | 396 (1.8) | 34 (8.6) | 41 (1.7) | |||
Gender (missing:42) | ||||||
Female | 10,051 (59.9) | 1085 (61.0) | 1354 (56.3) | |||
Male | 6693 (39.9) | 691 (38.8) | 1049 (43.6) | |||
Municipal acute Ward (missing:0) | ||||||
MAW 1 | 4630(27.6) | 463(26.0) | 548(22.8) | |||
MAW 2 | 2111(12.6) | 428(24.0) | 296(12.3) | |||
MAW 3 | 4217(25.1) | 392(22.0) | 517(21.5) | |||
MAW 4 | 1823(10.9) | 181(10.2) | 308(12.8) | |||
MAW 5 | 4005(23.9) | 315(17.7) | 737(30.6) | |||
Referred from (missing:432) | ||||||
General Practitioner | 6900 (41.1) | 651 (36.6) | 916 (38.1) | |||
Out-of-hour physician | 9337 (55.6) | 997 (56.0) | 1430 (59.4) | |||
Nursing home physician | 117 (0.7) | 4 (0.0) | 15 (0.6) | |||
Admitting time (missing:0) | ||||||
Day | 5287 (31.5) | 739 (41.5) | 736 (30.6) | |||
Evening | 8349 (49.7) | 454 (25.5) | 1222 (50.8) | |||
Night | 3150 (18.8) | 586 (32.9) | 448 (18.6) | |||
Admission Weekend/ Weekday (missing:0) | ||||||
Weekend | 3911 (23.3) | 434 (24.4) | 601 (25.0) | |||
Weekday | 12,875 (76.7) | 1345 (75.6) | 1805 (75.0) | |||
Admitted from (missing:349) | ||||||
Home | 13,490 (80.4) | 2025 (84.2) | ||||
Home healthcare services | 654 (3.9) | 97 (4.0) | ||||
Nursing homes | 514 (3.1) | 83 (4.4) | ||||
Discharged to (missing:604) | ||||||
Home | 6678 (39.8) | 693 (39.0) | ||||
Home with home-nursing | 4345 (25.9) | 562 (31.6) | ||||
Nursing home (short time care) | 2657 (15.8) | 287(16.1) | ||||
Nursing home (long time care) | 96 (0.6) | 7 (0.4) | ||||
Hospital | 2406 (14.3) | 160 (9.0) | ||||
Total | Extended diagnostics | Hospital | ||||
Mean/Median | SD/IQR | Mean/Median | SD/IQR | Mean/ Median | SD/IQR | |
Age (missing:166) | 73.5/78 | 17.8/66–86 | 75/80 | 17.2/68–87 | 72.6/77 | 17.7/65–86 |
Length of stay (missing:126) | 3.4/3 | 3.3/1–5 | 3.8/3 | 3.3/2–5 | 2.9/1 | 2.7/1–3 |