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

Goodacre, Steve W; Wilson, Richard W; Bradburn, Mike; Santarelli, Martina; Nicholl, Jon P

doi:10.1186/1477-7525-10-20

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Table 3 Health utility estimates stratified by patient characteristics

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

Factor	N	N dead	Mean	SD	Median	p
Overall	3028	541	0.45	0.36	0.52
Gender						< 0.001
Females	1552	279	0.43	0.36	0.52
Males	1448	255	0.48	0.37	0.59
Age						< 0.001
Under 30	110	2	0.65	0.38	0.76
30-39	121	4	0.58	0.37	0.69
40-49	204	4	0.53	0.40	0.69
50-59	277	19	0.47	0.36	0.59
60-69	509	69	0.45	0.37	0.52
70-79	773	137	0.43	0.35	0.52
80-89	813	219	0.40	0.34	0.52
90 or above	204	82	0.29	0.30	0.25
Centre						0.071
Barnsley	906	127	0.47	0.36	0.59
Rotherham	921	188	0.44	0.36	0.52
Sheffield	1201	226	0.44	0.37	0.52
Previous hospital admission						< 0.001
Yes	454	93	0.35	0.36	0.29
No	1397	259	0.46	0.37	0.52
Unknown	1177	189	0.48	0.36	0.59
ICD-10 code						< 0.001
Certain infectious and parasitic diseases	71	24	0.43	0.41	0.52
Diseases of the circulatory system	654	148	0.46	0.36	0.56
Diseases of the digestive system	257	29	0.53	0.36	0.62
Diseases of the genitourinary system	136	22	0.43	0.39	0.52
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue	60	1	0.33	0.34	0.52
Diseases of the nervous system	100	6	0.51	0.36	0.59
Diseases of the respiratory system	625	174	0.39	0.37	0.38
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue	16	4	0.36	0.38	0.52
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases	36	4	0.63	0.34	0.69
Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes	386	47	0.43	0.34	0.52
Mental and behavioural disorders	46	4	0.46	0.36	0.52
Neoplasms	69	46	0.18	0.33	0.00
Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified	532	24	0.50	0.35	0.59
Other	31	2	0.55	0.35	0.59
Unknown	9	6	0.41	0.47	0.19
History of chronic respiratory disease	455	96	0.32	0.32	0.29	< 0.001
History of heart disease	1109	211	0.41	0.34	0.52	< 0.001
History of active malignancy	170	84	0.29	0.35	0.19	< 0.001
History of asthma	335	44	0.41	0.36	0.52	0.048
History of diabetes	478	79	0.40	0.35	0.52	0.003
History of epilepsy	112	18	0.39	0.38	0.52	0.074
On warfarin therapy	213	33	0.41	0.34	0.52	0.126
On steroid therapy	190	44	0.30	0.33	0.26	< 0.001
Glasgow coma scale						< 0.001
< = 8	111	67	0.24	0.36	0.03
9-12	126	61	0.34	0.37	0.25
13-15	2706	384	0.47	0.36	0.58
Missing	85	29	0.32	0.33	0.36
Oxygen saturation (%)						< 0.001
> 93(air)/> 98(O2)	1913	206	0.48	0.36	0.59
90-93(air)/94-98(O2)	541	120	0.42	0.36	0.52
< 90(air)/< 94(O2)	472	175	0.36	0.36	0.29
Missing	102	40	0.35	0.37	0.36
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)						0.002
120-180	1967	274	0.46	0.36	0.58
> 180	364	48	0.46	0.35	0.59
100-119	365	104	0.42	0.37	0.52
< 100	274	95	0.40	0.38	0.52
Missing	58	20	0.31	0.36	0.36
Heart rate (per minute)						0.003
60-100	1874	287	0.46	0.36	0.55
101-130	745	153	0.42	0.37	0.52
> 130	168	51	0.43	0.38	0.52
< 60	188	33	0.51	0.37	0.62
Missing	53	17	0.33	0.36	0.36
Respiratory rate (per minute)						< 0.001
10-25	2359	329	0.48	0.36	0.59
> 25	525	170	0.37	0.37	0.29
< 10	13	5	0.25	0.38	0.08
Missing	131	37	0.34	0.35	0.36

Note: responders alive at 30 days are upweighted by the inverse of the age & gender specific response rate

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