Table 2 General information relating to patients discharged from the hospital between May and July 2022
From: Measuring the continuing care needs of inpatients in rural China
Items | Categories | Cases | Proportion(%) |
|---|---|---|---|
Gender | Female | 1801 | 47.51 |
Male | 1990 | 52.49 | |
Age group | Youth(≤44) | 755 | 19.92 |
Middle age(45–59) | 1080 | 28.49 | |
Young elderly(60–74) | 1259 | 33.21 | |
Elderly(75–89) | 655 | 17.28 | |
Long-lived elderly(≥90) | 42 | 1.11 | |
Education level | Elementary school and below | 1979 | 52.20 |
Junior high school | 1181 | 31.15 | |
Secondary or high school | 384 | 10.13 | |
College | 142 | 3.75 | |
Bachelor’s degree and above | 105 | 2.77 | |
Marital status | Never married | 178 | 4.70 |
Married | 3613 | 95.30 | |
Source of admission | Non-emergency sources | 2902 | 76.55 |
Emergency sources | 889 | 23.45 | |
Mode of admission | Walk | 2804 | 73.96 |
Stretcher | 548 | 14.46 | |
Wheelchair | 439 | 11.58 | |
Purpose of visit | Non-surgical | 3553 | 93.72 |
Surgical | 238 | 6.28 | |
Occupation | Farmer | 2860 | 75.44 |
Self-employed | 294 | 7.76 | |
Retired (resigned) person | 140 | 3.69 | |
Worker | 140 | 3.69 | |
Other | 357 | 9.42 | |
Medical payment method | New rural cooperative medical insurance | 2116 | 55.82 |
Basic medical insurance for urban residents | 1012 | 26.69 | |
Basic medical insurance for urban workers | 338 | 8.92 | |
fully self-paid | 285 | 7.52 | |
Other | 40 | 1.06 | |
Major diagnostic categories | Certain infectious and parasitic diseases | 58 | 1.53 |
Neoplasms | 233 | 6.15 | |
Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism | 42 | 1.11 | |
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases | 218 | 5.75 | |
Mental and behavioral disorders | 16 | 0.42 | |
Diseases of the nervous system | 332 | 8.76 | |
Diseases of the eye and adnexa | 49 | 1.29 | |
Diseases of the ear and mastoid process | 145 | 3.82 | |
Diseases of the circulatory system | 1010 | 26.64 | |
Diseases of the respiratory system | 216 | 5.70 | |
Diseases of the digestive system | 481 | 12.69 | |
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue | 16 | 0.42 | |
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue | 99 | 2.61 | |
Diseases of the genitourinary system | 256 | 6.75 | |
Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities | 11 | 0.29 | |
Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified | 44 | 1.16 | |
Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes | 303 | 7.99 | |
Factors influencing health status and contact with health services | 262 | 6.91 |