Table 5.
Diagnoses for unplanned hospital admissions for invited patients (n=512), by response status
| |
Admissions per patient |
Bed days per admission |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |
Respondents (n=102) |
Non-respondents (n=410) |
|
Respondents (n=421) |
Non-respondents (n=1900) |
|
| Mean (se) | Mean (SE) | P value1 | Median [max] | Median [max] | P value2 | |
|
Primary Diagnosis |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Coronary artery disease |
0.97 (0.10) |
0.84 (0.05) |
0.193 |
3 [18] |
3 [35] |
0.339 |
| COPD |
0.84 (0.09) |
0.84 (0.05) |
0.929 |
5 [22] |
5 [35] |
0.466 |
| Other Cardiovascular |
0.29 (0.05) |
0.31 (0.03) |
0.860 |
6 [21] |
5 [102] |
0.650 |
| Chest Pain (non-cardiac) |
0.26 (0.05) |
0.19 (0.02) |
0.154 |
2 [18] |
1 [43] |
0.547 |
| CHF |
0.23 (0.05) |
0.46 (0.03) |
0.002 |
3 [31] |
5 [57] |
0.047 |
| Diabetes |
0.22 (0.05) |
0.23 (0.02) |
0.943 |
5 [38] |
5 [55] |
0.938 |
| Hypertension |
0.01 (0.01) |
0.04 (0.01) |
0.202 |
1 [1] |
2 [7] |
0.500 |
| Influenza & Pneumonia |
0.19 (0.04) |
0.18 (0.02) |
0.861 |
8 [19] |
7 [30] |
0.856 |
| Other Respiratory |
0.08 (0.03) |
0.21 (0.02) |
0.010 |
5 [29] |
5 [38] |
0.879 |
| All other diseases |
1.02 (0.10) |
1.33 (0.06) |
0.018 |
4 [36] |
4 [57] |
0.561 |
|
Primary and secondary diagnosis |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Coronary artery disease |
1.63 (0.13) |
1.48 (0.06) |
0.272 |
3 [28] |
3.5 [53] |
0.189 |
| Hypertension |
1.42 (0.12) |
1.60 (0.06) |
0.198 |
4 [38] |
5 [102] |
0.095 |
| COPD |
1.35 (0.12) |
1.34 (0.06) |
0.898 |
5 [31] |
6 [57] |
0.484 |
| Diabetes |
1.19 (0.11) |
0.98 (0.05) |
0.066 |
4 [38] |
4 [102] |
0.914 |
| Congestive Heart failure |
0.75 (0.09) |
1.03 (0.05) |
0.009 |
5 [31] |
6 [57] |
0.392 |
| Any targeted ACS chronic admission (primary or secondary) | 3.68 (0.19) | 3.90 (0.10) | 0.293 | 4 [38] | 4.5 [102] | 0.040 |
1 Results from Generalised Poisson Linear model with Log link.
2 Results from non-parametric Wilcoxon test of ranks.