Table 4.
Patient characteristics and system outcomes of the matched* cohort of patients by compliance status to checklist assessments at 24 hours of admission to AMU
| AMU frailty checklist full compliance with all assessments | AMU frailty checklist incomplete compliance with all assessments | P value | |
| n | 260 | 260 | |
| Patient characteristics | |||
| Age (mean (SD)) | 83.70 (5.53) | 83.66 (5.69) | 0.938 |
| Race (%) | 0.125 | ||
| Chinese | 207 (79.6) | 202 (77.7) | |
| Malay | 29 (11.2) | 19 (7.3) | |
| Indian | 10 (3.8) | 17 (6.5) | |
| Other | 14 (5.4) | 22 (8.5) | |
| What is the Charlson Comorbidity Score? (mean (SD)) | 2.73 (1.91) | 2.72 (2.04) | 0.965 |
| What is the Clinical Frailty Scale (%) | 0.339 | ||
| 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| 2 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| 3 | 8 (3.1) | 12 (4.6) | |
| 4 | 81 (31.2) | 70 (26.9) | |
| 5 | 49 (18.8) | 50 (19.2) | |
| 6 | 43 (16.5) | 56 (21.5) | |
| 7 | 57 (21.9) | 43 (16.5) | |
| 8 | 21 (8.1) | 26 (10.0) | |
| 9 | 1 (0.4) | 3 (1.2) | |
| What is the NEWS Score on admission? (mean (SD)) | 1.58 (2.32) | 1.64 (2.18) | 0.741 |
| System and patient outcomes | |||
| Length of hospital stay (mean (SD)) | 5.76 (6.31) | 6.66 (5.95) | 0.096 |
| 30-day ED reattendance (%) | 38 (14.6) | 41 (15.8) | 0.807 |
| 30-day hospital readmission (%) | 37 (14.2) | 38 (14.6) | 1 |
| Inpatient mortality (%) | 6 (2.3) | 8 (3.1) | 0.786 |
*Matched for age, Charlson Comorbidity Score, Clinical Frailty Score and admission NEWS using Propensity Score with ‘nearest neighbour’ method.
AMU, acute medical unit; ED, emergency department; NEWS, National Early Warning Score.