From: Emergency department admissions to the intensive care unit – a national retrospective study
overall | male | female | p | |
---|---|---|---|---|
(n = 109,111) | (n = 62,730) | (n = 46,381) | ||
intoxication | 19.1 | 16.7 | 22.4 | < 0.01 |
trauma | 14.7 | 18.1 | 10.0 | < 0.01 |
neurology | 12.6 | 12.2 | 13.0 | < 0.01 |
infection | 12.2 | 12.3 | 12.0 | 0.25 |
respiratory | 8.5 | 7.5 | 9.8 | < 0.01 |
cardiology | 8.4 | 9.1 | 7.4 | < 0.01 |
endocrinology | 8.0 | 7.0 | 9.2 | < 0.01 |
gastrointestinal | 5.5 | 5.7 | 5.1 | < 0.01 |
circulatory | 2.9 | 3.1 | 2.6 | < 0.01 |
consciousness | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 0.65 |