Table 2.
Distribution of primary diagnoses at discharge in the nursing home population. Sex, length of stay and mortality according to primary diagnosis
| ICD-10 codes - main chapter | Primary diagnosis at discharge n (%) |
Men n (%) |
Median length of stay (Inter quartile range) |
Mortality in hospital n (%) |
Mortality ≤ 30 days after discharge n (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) |
173 (7.1) | 78 (45.1) | 5 (6) | 44 (25.8) | 64 (37.0) |
| Neoplasms (C00-D48) |
94 (3.8) | 38 (40.4) | 4 (7) | 20 (21.2) | 47 (50.0) |
| Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99) |
405 (16.5) | 141 (34.8) | 3 (4) | 94 (22.2) | 139 (34.3) |
| Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J99) |
486 (19.8) | 217 (44.6) | 4 (6) | 137 (28.1) | 208 (42.8) |
| Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K93) |
243 (9.9) | 90 (37.0) | 3 (4) | 28 (11.5) | 61 (25.1) |
| Diseases of the genitourinary system (N00-N99) |
162 (6.6) | 83 (51.2) | 3 (4) | 19 (11.7) | 38 (23.5) |
| Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99) |
140 (5.7) | 66 (47.1) | 1 (1) | 15 (10.7) | 27 (19.3) |
| Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T98) |
437 (17.8) | 113 (25.9) | 3 (4) | 18 (4.1) | 63 (14.4) |
| Other ICD-10 codes | 311 (12.7) | 104 (33.4) | - | 29 (9.3) | 60 (19.2) |
| Total | 2 451 (100) | 930 (37.9) | 3 (4) | 404 (16.4) | 707 (28.8) |