Table 3.
Drug-related hospital admissions per category
| Category | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rate | Number | Rate | Number | Rate | Number | Rate | Number | Rate | Number | Rate | |
| A.1 | 0.06% | 9546 | 0.10% | 14728 | 0.10% | 14867 | 0.12% | 18287 | 0.11% | 17664 | 0.10% |
| A.2 | 0.22% | 36614 | 0.23% | 34894 | 0.23% | 34194 | 0.20% | 30689 | 0.20% | 31842 | 0.22% |
| B.1 | 0.08% | 13676 | 0.10% | 14958 | 0.09% | 13582 | 0.11% | 16840 | 0.07% | 10424 | 0.09% |
| B.2 | 0.04% | 6188 | 0.03% | 5172 | 0.03% | 4823 | 0.03% | 4857 | 0.03% | 4697 | 0.03% |
| C | 0.14% | 22883 | 0.16% | 24394 | 0.18% | 27082 | 0.20% | 30699 | 0.22% | 34623 | 0.19% |
| D | 1.09% | 181152 | 1.19% | 179801 | 1.17% | 175682 | 1.24% | 187583 | 1.40% | 218105 | 1.23% |
| E | 2.95% | 490194 | 3.10% | 469040 | 3.16% | 474140 | 3.36% | 509535 | 3.10% | 482905 | 3.14% |
| A - E | 4.58% | 760252 | 4.91% | 742987 | 4.97% | 744369 | 5.26% | 798490 | 5.14% | 800260 | 4.98% |
| Total number of in-patients | 16598546 | 15127645 | 14989953 | 15181779 | 15559359 | ||||||
The rate is the proportion of the sample from the respective year. The absolute number of in-patients within each category is a linear extrapolation from the sample to the target population (Germany). The total rate is the weighted average for the years 2003 to 2007.