Table 2.

Mean (SD) figures for patient factors and association between patient factors and standardised admission rates

Factor	Mean (SD)	All admissions			Emergency admissions			Elective admissions
		r*	P value		r*	P value		r*	P value
Jarman UPA8 components (%):
Moved in past year	12.8 (2.9)	-0.46	<0.001		−0.31	0.001		−0.36	<0.001
Unskilled	2.5 (1.1)	0.39	<0.001		0.52	<0.001		0.29	0.001
One parent families	4.9 (2.6)	0.32	<0.001		0.52	<0.001		0.21	0.019
Elderly living alone	6.1 (1.2)	0.29	0.001		0.28	0.002		0.28	0.002
Children aged under 5	6.6 (1.2)	0.28	0.002		0.20	0.026		0.14	0.12
Unemployed	10.2 (3.1)	0.22	0.016		0.46	<0.001		0.16	0.091
Overcrowded	6.8 (2.7)	0.15	0.10		0.33	<0.001		0.12	0.21
Born in NCP	14.2 (7.9)	−0.12	0.19		−0.01	0.92		−0.11	0.24
Other census variables (%):
Chronically ill	11.3 (1.8)	0.49	<0.001		0.59	<0.001		0.43	<0.001
Not owner occupied	35.1 (14.4)	0.19	0.043		0.45	<0.001		0.14	0.14
No car	29.2 (9.4)	0.13	0.16		0.40	<0.001		0.10	0.28
Asian	6.8 (4.0)	−0.11	0.23		−0.11	0.23		−0.09	0.35
Non-white	16.5 (9.3)	−0.09	0.35		0.05	0.59		−0.08	0.41
Black	7.4 (5.8)	−0.04	0.67		0.16	0.077		−0.05	0.60
Jarman UPA8 score	16.5 (11.3)	0.28	0.002		0.46	<0.001		0.20	0.028
Townsend score	0.7 (2.6)	0.18	0.046		0.44	<0.001		0.14	0.13

^*r=Pearson’s correlation coefficient. NCP=New Commonwealth and Pakistan.