Table 1.

Patients and index hospital stay characteristics of all survivors and by cluster

	All survivors	Cluster 1	Cluster 2	Cluster 3	Cluster 4	Cluster 5
		Early death	Late death	Short-term rehabilitation	Long-term rehabilitation	Home
	N = 147,013 (100%)	N = 19,003 (12.9%)	N = 10,058 (6.8%)	N = 16,597 (11.3%)	N = 4865 (3.3%)	N = 96,490 (65.6%)
Patient characteristics, %a
Sex
Men	57.1	59.0	60.0	53.8	62.2	56.7
Women	42.9	41.1	40.0	46.2	37.8	43.3
Age, median [IQRa]	70 [58–81]	77 [65–85]	75 [64–84]	75 [64–83]	64 [52–75]	68 [55–79]
16–30	4.0	0.5	0.8	2.1	6.7	5.2
31–45	7.0	2.3	3.1	3.9	9.9	8.8
46–55	9.9	6.2	6.9	7.5	13.9	11.2
56–65	18.7	16.0	17.9	15.2	22.7	19.6
66–75	22.1	21.6	22.6	22.3	22.8	22.1
76–85	24.8	30.0	28.8	32.3	17.8	22.5
> 85	13.5	23.4	19.8	16.8	6.3	10.6
Charlson, median [IQRa]	2 [0–3]	2 [2–6]	2 [2–5]	2 [0–3]	2 [0–2]	1 [0–2]
0	36.2	16.4	17.4	34.8	31.0	42.6
1–2	36.4	34.1	37.0	39.2	44.8	35.9
3–4	14.3	18.0	19.2	17.1	15.7	12.5
≥ 5	13.0	31.5	26.4	8.9	8.6	8.9
Incident hospital stay characteristics, %a
Length of stay (days), median [IQR2]	16 [10–28]	19 [11–31]	17 [10–28]	27 [17–43]	38 [21–62]	14 [9–23]
< 7	12.0	10.3	10.3	3.3	3.6	14.5
7–30	66.2	63.7	67.8	54.4	35.0	70.1
31–90	20.1	24.2	20.4	38.7	49.9	14.5
> 90	1.7	2.0	1.5	3.7	11.5	0.9
ICUc admission	56.8	44.2	47.4	72.6	79.7	56.4
Septic shock	16.4	16.7	15.5	22.3	22.3	15.0
Hospital discharge
Acute care	15.4	21.1	12.9	25.8	28.5	12.1
Home	63.2	49.7	67.1	12.8	14.0	76.6
Home care	1.1	3.2	1.6	0.2	0.4	0.8
Long term care	20.3	26.1	18.5	61.2	57.2	10.5

^aFor each variable: percentage of patients for each cluster and all survivors

^bInterquartile range

^cIntensive care unit