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Table 2 30-day mortality rate for visits and short stay visits patients

From: Assessed and discharged – diagnosis, mortality and revisits in short-term emergency department contacts

 

Visits patients

Short stay visits patients

ICD-10 main chapter

Deaths (n)

Mortality rate

Deaths (n)

Mortality rate

Overall

640

1.3 (1.2–1.5)

578

1.8 (1.7–2.0)

Symptoms and signs

117

0.8 (0.7–1.0)

107

1.1 (0.9–1.4)

Circulatory diseases

224

13.0 (11.5–14.7)

82

5.0 (4.0–6.1)

Respiratory diseases

51

2.4 (1.8–3.1)

81

3.6 (2.9–4.5)

Other factors

158

0.8 (0.7–1.0)

76

1.3 (1.0–1.6)

Digestive diseases

11

0.7 (0.3–1.3)

63

1.9 (1.5–2.4)

Infections

13

1.1 (0.6–2.0)

47

4.0 (3.0–5.2)

Blood diseases

9

4.0 (2.1–7.5)

32

6.3 (4.5–8.8)

Endocrine diseases

17

3.3 (2.0–5.2)

25

3.2 (2.1–4.6)

Genitourinary diseases

6

0.7 (0.3–1.5)

22

1.8 (1.2–2.7)

Remaining chapters

34

0.4 (0.3–0.6)

43

0.9 (0.6–1.1)

  1. Cumulative number of deaths at day 30 for visit (duration of 0-4 h) and short stay visits (duration of 4-24 h) patients and corresponding Kaplan–Meier estimator mortality rates with 95% confidence intervals