Table 1 Patients’ background characteristics
Variable | All episodes (n = 180 220) | 1% expensive episode (n = 1 802) | 5% expensive episode (n = 9 139) | 10% expensive episode (n = 18 010) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Resource use | ||||||||
Total, K USD (%) | 188,489 | 100% | 107,733 | 57% | 133,916 | 71% | 140,696 | 75% |
Average, per episode per day, USD (SD) | 385 | 360 | 1537 | 577 | 1613 | 701 | 1195 | 660 |
Male, N (%) | 78,780 | 44% | 1007 | 56% | 4561 | 50% | 9341 | 52% |
Age | ||||||||
0–9 | 15,545 | 9% | 0 | 0% | 553 | 6% | 2038 | 11% |
10–19 | 57,441 | 32% | 210 | 12% | 1807 | 20% | 4769 | 26% |
20–29 | 33,501 | 19% | 291 | 16% | 1791 | 20% | 3321 | 18% |
30–39 | 28,646 | 16% | 343 | 19% | 1608 | 18% | 2762 | 15% |
40–49 | 21,402 | 12% | 314 | 17% | 1465 | 16% | 2402 | 13% |
50–59 | 14,217 | 8% | 292 | 16% | 987 | 11% | 1453 | 8% |
60–69 | 5979 | 3% | 192 | 11% | 548 | 6% | 726 | 4% |
70 + | 3489 | 2% | 160 | 9% | 380 | 4% | 539 | 3% |
Length of stay (LOS) | ||||||||
Care within 1 day | 176,210 | 98% | 0 | 0% | 5160 | 56% | 14,013 | 52% |
1–7 days | 1,559 | 1% | 13 | 1% | 1539 | 17% | 1554 | 6% |
8–30 days | 1,557 | 1% | 940 | 52% | 1551 | 17% | 1553 | 6% |
31–90 days | 706 | 0% | 675 | 37% | 705 | 8% | 706 | 3% |
91–365 days | 188 | 0% | 174 | 10% | 184 | 2% | 184 | 1% |
LOS, mean (SD) | 0.57 | 0.01 | 43 | 0.95 | 10 | 0.26 | 5 | 0.14 |
LOS Care within 1 day, mean (%) | 0.04 | 98% | 0.14 | 56% | 0.10 | 78% | ||
LOS More than one night, mean (%) | 23 | 2% | 43 | 100% | 23 | 44% | 23 | 22% |
First hospital visit | ||||||||
Yes | 10,363 | 6% | 293 | 16% | 1039 | 11% | 1646 | 9% |
No | 169,857 | 94% | 1509 | 84% | 8100 | 89% | 16,364 | 91% |
Interval since last hospital episode | ||||||||
Very short re-visit (-3 days) | 17,482 | 10% | 321 | 18% | 1739 | 19% | 2642 | 15% |
3–7 days | 37,083 | 21% | 297 | 16% | 1737 | 19% | 3234 | 18% |
7–30 days | 74,892 | 42% | 373 | 21% | 2411 | 26% | 5721 | 32% |
30–90 days | 24,854 | 14% | 258 | 14% | 1147 | 13% | 2473 | 14% |
90 days - | 7452 | 4% | 216 | 12% | 704 | 8% | 1170 | 6% |
No previous history or anonymous | 18,457 | 10% | 337 | 19% | 1401 | 15% | 2770 | 15% |
Admission type, N (%) | ||||||||
Planned | 177,607 | 99% | 1185 | 66% | 7132 | 78% | 15,904 | 88% |
Acute | 2613 | 1% | 617 | 34% | 2007 | 22% | 2106 | 12% |
Care type, N (%) | ||||||||
Outpatient consultation | 160,253 | 89% | 0 | 0% | 4354 | 48% | 10,753 | 60% |
Ambulatory outpatient consultation | 7396 | 4% | 0 | 0% | 427 | 5% | 1485 | 8% |
Ambulatory other services | 8395 | 5% | 0 | 0% | 357 | 4% | 1674 | 9% |
Inpatient | 3954 | 2% | 1668 | 93% | 3809 | 42% | 3888 | 22% |
Ambulatory inpatient | 89 | 0.0% | 48 | 3% | 87 | 1% | 89 | 0.5% |
Surgical intervention | 133 | 0.1% | 86 | 5% | 105 | 1% | 121 | 1% |
Number of planned consultation, mean (SD) | 15 | 0.1 | 27 | 1.0 | 24 | 0.5 | 22 | 0.4 |
Diagnose, N (%) | ||||||||
Emotional | 26,299 | 15% | 0 | 0% | 475 | 5% | 1407 | 8% |
Depressive disorder | 14,599 | 8% | 0 | 0% | 158 | 2% | 556 | 3% |
Trauma | 15,600 | 9% | 0 | 0% | 123 | 1% | 469 | 3% |
Anxiety | 11,967 | 7% | 52 | 3% | 283 | 3% | 630 | 3% |
Schizophrenia | 3782 | 2% | 94 | 5% | 729 | 8% | 1071 | 6% |
Other psychoses | 2193 | 1% | 291 | 16% | 712 | 8% | 800 | 4% |
Bipolar | 4763 | 3% | 110 | 6% | 323 | 4% | 548 | 3% |
ADHD | 4508 | 3% | 0 | 0% | 69 | 1% | 236 | 1% |
Geriatric | 3451 | 2% | 0 | 0% | 69 | 1% | 237 | 1% |
Eating disorder | 2990 | 2% | 15 | 1% | 51 | 1% | 112 | 1% |
Personality disorder | 2130 | 1% | 15 | 1% | 143 | 2% | 197 | 1% |
OCD | 1327 | 1% | 0 | 0% | 96 | 1% | 156 | 1% |
Substance abuse | 5309 | 3% | 350 | 19% | 698 | 8% | 907 | 5% |
Development disorder | 540 | 0.3% | 0 | 0% | 13 | 0.1% | 34 | 0.2% |
Stress | 362 | 0.2% | 109 | 6% | 361 | 4% | 361 | 2% |
Organic disorder | 15 | 0.0% | 6 | 0.3% | 15 | 0.2% | 15 | 0.1% |
Neuropsychiatric | 8 | 0.0% | 4 | 0.2% | 8 | 0.1% | 8 | 0.0% |
Not specified | 71,926 | 40% | 43 | 2% | 2815 | 31% | 7882 | 44% |
Anonymous | 8451 | 5% | 713 | 40% | 1998 | 22% | 2384 | 13% |