Table 2.
Descriptive statistics
| Amputation | Brain disorder | Chronic pain | Musculoskeletal systems | Nervous system | Organ Disorder | Paraplegia | Short rehabilitation | Overall | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (N = 1787) | (N = 17318) | (N = 2700) | (N = 2782) | (N = 2546) | (N = 2328) | (N = 4133) | (N = 213) | (N = 33,807) | |
| High pharmaceutical consumption in the previous yeara | |||||||||
| Percentage | 70.9 | 38.7 | 35.8 | 35.6 | 46.6 | 66.7 | 45.5 | 54.0 | 43.4 |
| Female | |||||||||
| Percentage | 29.0 | 38.5 | 73.8 | 44.5 | 50.0 | 38.7 | 34.7 | 44.1 | 41.8 |
| Age (in years) | |||||||||
| Mean (SD) | 61.0 (12.5) | 56.9 (15.9) | 34.5 (17.3) | 45.8 (18.9) | 51.5 (16.0) | 55.3 (17.5) | 55.8 (16.9) | 55.4 (15.9) | 53.8 (17.6) |
| Weekdaysb | |||||||||
| Monday | 312 (17.5%) | 3421 (19.8%) | 172 (6.4%) | 502 (18.0%) | 411 (16.1%) | 586 (25.2%) | 671 (16.2%) | 18 (8.5%) | 6093 (18.0%) |
| Tuesday | 335 (18.7%) | 3693 (21.3%) | 446 (16.5%) | 513 (18.4%) | 550 (21.6%) | 496 (21.3%) | 832 (20.1%) | 35 (16.4%) | 6900 (20.4%) |
| Wednesday | 376 (21.0%) | 3620 (20.9%) | 458 (17.0%) | 609 (21.9%) | 507 (19.9%) | 498 (21.4%) | 905 (21.9%) | 43 (20.2%) | 7016 (20.8%) |
| Thursday | 398 (22.3%) | 3620 (20.9%) | 499 (18.5%) | 618 (22.2%) | 543 (21.3%) | 408 (17.5%) | 898 (21.7%) | 47 (22.1%) | 7031 (20.8%) |
| Friday | 240 (13.4%) | 2477 (14.3%) | 603 (22.3%) | 389 (14.0%) | 357 (14.0%) | 229 (9.8%) | 521 (12.6%) | 43 (20.2%) | 4859 (14.4%) |
| Saturday | 92 (5.1%) | 341 (2.0%) | 379 (14.0%) | 101 (3.6%) | 121 (4.8%) | 79 (3.4%) | 190 (4.6%) | 19 (8.9%) | 1322 (3.9%) |
| Sunday | 34 (1.9%) | 146 (0.8%) | 143 (5.3%) | 50 (1.8%) | 57 (2.2%) | 32 (1.4%) | 116 (2.8%) | 8 (3.8%) | 586 (1.7%) |
aPercentage of those with high pharmaceutical consumption in the previous year
bNumber of patients discharged on each day of the week, in parenthesis as a percentage of the total