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 | Â | Â | Â | 0.400 |
   Females | 2995 | 279 (9.3%) | 1273 (46.9%) |  |
   Males | 2710 | 255 (9.4%) | 1193 (48.6%) |  |
Age | Â | Â | Â | < 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 | Â | Â | Â | < 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 | Â | Â | Â | 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** | Â | Â | Â | < 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 |