Table 4 ED resource utilisation, hospitalisation and in-hospital mortality per MTS category in older surgical and medical patients
Outcome measure | Group | MTS category – relative estimates with 95% confidence intervals | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Red‡ | Orange‡ | Yellow‡ | Absolute value in green reference category | ||
surgical: n = 9 | surgical: n = 160 | surgical: n = 1271 | surgical: n = 1775 | ||
medical: n = 52 | medical: n = 903 | medical: n = 1894 | medical: n = 1044 | ||
ED-LOS (minutes, difference)¶ | Surgical | 23.4 (− 22.5–69.4) | 61.8 (50.5–73.2)** | 31.8 (26.7–36.8)** | Median 95 (59–140) |
Medical | −56.2 (− 73.6- -38.7) | −19.1 (− 24.7- -13.5)** | 5.2 (0.4–9.9) | Median 158 (119–200) | |
Number of diagnostic tests (IDR)^ | Surgical | 3.6 (2.4–5.3)** | 3.6 (3.3–4.0)** | 2.2 (2.0–2.3)** | Mean 0.8 (0.9) |
Medical | 1.5 (1.2–1.7)** | 1.8 (1.7–1.9)** | 1.4 (1.3–1.4)** | Mean 2.2 (1.4) | |
Number of medical procedure (IDR)^ | Surgical | 3.1 (2.1–4.7)** | 3.1 (2.8–3.4)** | 1.6 (1.5–1.7)** | Mean 0.8 (0.9) |
Medical | 3.5 (3.0–4.1)** | 2.5 (2.3–2.7)** | 1.6 (1.5–1.7)** | Mean 1.0 (0.9) | |
Medication administered (OR)± | Surgical | 4.0 (1.1–15.0)** | 6.6 (4.7–9.4)** | 3.9 (3.4–4.6)** | N = 423 (23.8%) |
Medical | 4.8 (2.7–8.7)** | 4.4 (3.7–5.4)** | 1.8 (1.5–2.1)** | N = 312 (29.9%) | |
> 1 specialty consultations (OR)± | Surgical | – | 9.0 (6.2–13.0)** | 2.6 (2.1–3.3)** | N = 117 (6.6%) |
Medical | 1.4 (0.7–3.1) | 1.7 (1.4–2.3)** | 1.8 (1.5–2.3)** | N = 117 (11.2%) | |
Hospitalisation (OR)#± | Surgical | – | 22.9 (15.0–34.9)** | 6.2 (5.2–7.3)** | N = 291 (16.4%) |
Medical | – | 9.1 (6.8–12.4)** | 2.6 (2.2–3.1)** | N = 660 (63.2%) | |
In-hospital mortality (OR)# ± | Surgical | 50.4 (9.3–273.3)** | 19.7 (8.8–44.3)** | 4.1 (2.0–8.5)** | N = 10 (0.6%) |
Medical | 15.7 (7.7–32.1)** | 4.0 (2.7–5.9)** | 1.4 (0.95–2.1) | N = 37 (3.5%) | |