Table 2 Chronic Conditions, Injuries, and Outcomes of Sample Patients
Categorical Variables | Count (N = 992) | Percent (95% CI) | ||
Chronic conditions body system indicator | ||||
Circulatory system | 992 | 100 | ||
Respiratory system | 820 | 82.7 (77.5–86.9) | ||
Endocrine/nutritional/metabolic/immunity | 795 | 80.1 (74.7–84.6) | ||
Symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions | 779 | 78.5 (73.1–83.1) | ||
Genitourinary system | 724 | 72.9 (67.1–78.1) | ||
Blood and blood-forming organs | 636 | 64.1 (58.0–69.7) | ||
Injury and poisoning | 617 | 62.2 (56.3–67.7) | ||
Digestive system | 414 | 41.8 (35.8–47.9) | ||
Infectious and parasitic disease | 393 | 39.7 (33.7–45.9) | ||
Health status/contact with health services factors | 383 | 38.6 (33.1–44.4) | ||
Nervous system and sense organs | 313 | 31.5 (26.1–37.5) | ||
Mental disorders | 186 | 18.8 (14.3–24.2) | ||
Injury diagnosis reported on record | ||||
No injury diagnoses reported | 851 | 85.8 (80.8–89.7) | ||
Injury is reported | 141 | 14.2 (10.3–19.2) | ||
Injuries Specified by the NEDS Database | ||||
Injury by suffocation | 19 | 1.9 (0.8–4.4) | ||
Injury by falling | 15 | 1.5 (0.5–4.1) | ||
More than one injury diagnosis | ||||
One or no injury diagnosis reported | 938 | 94.5 (90.9–96.7) | ||
More than one injury diagnosis | 54 | 5.5 (3.3–9.1) | ||
Unintentional injury indicated | ||||
Intention not specified | 924 | 93.1 (89.2–95.6) | ||
Unintentional injury | 68 | 6.9 (4.4–10.8) | ||
Injury severity scorea | 90.3 (85.9–93.5) | |||
No injury severity score | 896 | 4.4 (2.4–7.8) | ||
1–8 | 44 | 5.3 (3.0–9.0) | ||
9–75 | 52 | |||
Disposition of patient | ||||
Admitted to same hospital | 992 | 100 | ||
Survival to discharge | 506 | 51.0 (44.8–57.1) | ||
Died in the ED/hospital | 486 | 49.0 (42.9–55.2) | ||
Continuous Variables | Frequency | Range | Median (IQR) | Mean (95% CI) |
Total chargesb (USD$) | 988 | 3773–4,292,990 | 409,138 (468,598) | 589,610.5 (512,270.0 – 666,950.9) |
Length of stay (days) | 992 | 0–131 | 16 (24) | 21.8 (19.0–24.7) |