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Table 1 Death and response rate in relation to patient characteristics

From: Health utility after emergency medical admission: a cross-sectional survey

 

N

Death rate n (%)

Response rate* n (%)

P-value for response rate*

   Overall

5760

541 (9.4%)

2487 (47.7%)

 

Gender

   

0.400

   Females

2995

279 (9.3%)

1273 (46.9%)

 

   Males

2710

255 (9.4%)

1193 (48.6%)

 

Age

   

< 0.001

   Under 30

355

2 (0.6%)

108 (30.6%)

 

   30-39

368

4 (1.1%)

117 (32.1%)

 

   40-49

504

4 (0.8%)

200 (40.0%)

 

   50-59

516

19 (3.7%)

258 (51.9%)

 

   60-69

823

69 (8.4%)

440 (58.4%)

 

   70-79

1301

137 (10.5%)

636 (54.6%)

 

   80-89

1441

219 (15.2%)

594 (48.6%)

 

   90 or above

422

82 (19.4%)

122 (35.9%)

 

Centre

   

< 0.001

   Barnsley

1673

127 (7.6%)

779 (50.4%)

 

   Rotherham

1660

188 (11.3%)

733 (49.8%)

 

   Sheffield

2427

226 (9.3%)

975 (44.3%)

 

Hospital admission within the last 30 days

   

0.007

   Yes

879

93 (10.6%)

361 (45.9%)

 

   No

2734

259 (9.5%)

1138 (46.0%)

 

   Unknown

2147

189 (8.8%)

988 (50.5%)

 

ICD-10 code**

   

< 0.001

   Certain infectious and parasitic diseases

118

24 (20.3%)

47 (50.0%)

 

   Diseases of the circulatory system

1074

148 (13.8%)

506 (54.6%)

 

   Diseases of the digestive system

530

29 (5.5%)

228 (45.5%)

 

   Diseases of the genitourinary system

296

22 (7.4%)

114 (41.6%)

 

   Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue

114

1 (0.9%)

59 (52.2%)

 

   Diseases of the nervous system

180

6 (3.3%)

94 (54.0%)

 

   Diseases of the respiratory system

1060

174 (16.4%)

451 (50.9%)

 

   Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue

50

4 (8.0%)

12 (26.1%)

 

   Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases

96

4 (4.2%)

32 (34.8%)

 

   Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes

845

47 (5.6%)

339 (42.5%)

 

   Mental and behavioural disorders

120

4 (3.3%)

42 (36.2%)

 

   Neoplasms

110

46 (41.8%)

23 (35.9%)

 

   Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified

1088

24 (2.2%)

508 (47.7%)

 

   Other

60

2 (3.3%)

29 (50.0%)

 

   Unknown

19

6 (31.6%)

3 (23.1%)

 

History of chronic respiratory disease

746

96 (12.9%)

359 (55.2%)

< 0.001

History of heart disease

1902

211 (11.1%)

898 (53.1%)

< 0.001

History of active malignancy

266

84 (31.6%)

86 (47.3%)

0.91

History of asthma

661

44 (6.7%)

291 (47.2%)

0.792

History of diabetes

896

79 (8.8%)

399 (48.8%)

0.464

History of epilepsy

235

18 (7.7%)

94 (43.3%)

0.192

On warfarin therapy

319

33 (10.3%)

180 (62.9%)

< 0.001

On steroid therapy

296

44 (14.9%)

146 (57.9%)

< 0.001

  1. * excluding deaths within 30 days
  2. **primary discharge diagnosis