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Table 5 ED visit and admission data by sex and age-group combined

From: The growing impact of older patients in the emergency department: a 5-year retrospective analysis in Brazil

Sex

 

Women

Men

Age-group

 

young adult

adult

young-older adult

old-older adult

young adult

adult

young-older adult

old-older adult

 Age-group/sex

N

74,658

60,590

36,886

9750

61,105

48,240

34,716

7083

(%)

(41.0)

(33.3)

(20.3)

(5.4)

(40.4)

(31.9)

(23.0)

(4.7)

ED visit characteristics

 Referred presentations

N

1819

1955

1979

1055

3654

3189

2449

775

(%)

(2.4)

(3.2)

(5.4)

(10.8)

(6.0)

(6.9)

(7.1)

(10.9)

 Admissions

N

6217

7711

7631

2870

7491

9737

8833

2102

(%)

(8.3)

(12.7)

(20.7)

(29.4)

(12.3)

(20.2)

(25.4)

(29.7)

 Total ED visits

N

74,658

60,590

36,886

9750

61,105

48,240

34,716

7083

(%)

(100.0)

(100.0)

(100.0)

(100.0)

(100.0)

(100.0)

(100.0)

(100.0)

Admission characteristics

 Surgical hospitalization

N

3169

3778

3731

1291

3978

4887

4312

945

(%)

(52.4)

(50.1)

(49.9)

(45.6)

(53.9)

(51.0)

(49.6)

(45.6)

 Surgical main procedure

N

1726

2151

2095

711

2237

2658

2441

545

(%)

(27.8)

(28.0)

(27.5)

(24.9)

(29.9)

(27.4)

(27.7)

(26.0)

 ICU admissions

N

1426

1926

2064

778

1917

2529

2377

598

(%)

(22.9)

(25.0)

(27.0)

(27.1)

(25.6)

(26.0)

(26.9)

(28.4)

 Deaths

N

288

715

1190

721

626

1169

1440

525

(%)

(4.6)

(9.3)

(15.6)

(25.1)

(8.4)

(12.0)

(16.3)

(25.0)

 Total admissions

N

6217

7711

7631

2870

7491

9737

8833

2102

(%)

(100.0)

(100.0)

(100.0)

(100.0)

(100.0)

(100.0)

(100.0)

(100.0)

Continuous variables

 Age (years)

mean (SD)

28.3 (6.1)

49.4 (5.6)

68.2 (5.7)

84.9 (4.3)

28.5 (6.0)

49.6 (5.8)

68.2 (5.6)

84.3 (3.9)

median (min-max)

28 (18–39)

49 (40–59)

68 (60–79)

84 (80–108)

28 (18–39)

50 (40–59)

68 (60–79)

83 (80–102)

 ICU-LOS (days)

mean (SD)

6.2 (7.8)

6.6 (7.8)

6.9 (8.4)

6.8 (7.9)

6.3 (7.7)

6.7 (8.0)

6.8 (8.2)

6.9 (8.5)

median (min-max)

3 (1–71)

4 (1–60)

4 (1–67)

4 (1–74)

3 (1–59)

4 (1–90)

4 (1–68)

4 (1–63)

 LOS (days)

mean (SD)

8.3 (10.6)

8.7 (10.9)

8.8 (12.9)

8.5 (11.1)

8.3 (10.8)

8.6 (11.1)

8.7 (10.8)

9.0 (11.0)

median (min-max)

4 (0–125)

5 (0–184)

5 (0–490)

5 (0–193)

4 (0–115)

5 (0–178)

5 (0–106)

5 (0–87)

  1. LOS length of hospital stay, ICU-LOS length of ICU stay, SD Standard Deviation; min-max: minimum-maximum. Mean, SD, median and min-max refer to age in years and to LOS and ICU-LOS in days. Percentages are out of the total number of eligible ED visits, or total number of admissions