Table 3.

Characteristics and estimated costs of public hospital discharge episodes with above-average length of stay

		Complication acquired			No complication acquired			Whole sample
		Dementia	No dementia	Total	Dementia	No dementia	Total	Dementia	No dementia	Total
Characteristics	Group Rate (hospital episodes)#	5,176	17,133	22,309	13,584	121,285	134,869	18,760	138,418	157,178
	Mean Charlson Score#	1.1	1.7	1.6	0.9	1.1	1.1	1	1.2	1.1
	Mean Cost Weight#^	2.5	3.3	3.1	1.8	1.6	1.6	2	1.8	1.9
Means	Mean Study LOS (days)#	23.1	23.5	23.4	18.2	12.1	12.7	19.5	13.5	14.2
	Mean State LOS (days)^	10.9	11.5	11.3	8.4	6.3	6.5	9.1	6.9	7.2
	Mean Extra LOS (days)#^	12.2	12	12	9.7	5.8	6.2	10.4	6.6	7
	Mean Cost (A$)#^	$19,873	$23,803	$22,891	$15,154	$11,793	$12,132	$16,457	$13,280	$13,659
Totals	Total LOS (days)#	119,512	401,844	521,356	247,096	1,469,720	1,716,816	366,608	1,871,564	2,238,172
	Total Cost (A$)#^	$102,863,592	$407,811,537	$510,675,130	$205,861,352	$1,430,365,193	$1,636,226,545	$308,724,944	$1,838,176,730	$2,146,901,675
Above-average length of stay	Total Above-Average LOS (days)#^	63,277	204,755	268,032	132,327	707,118	839,444	195,604	911,873	1,107,476
	Mean Episode Cost of Above-Average LOS (A$)#^	$9,580	$10,284	$10,120	$7,428	$4,843	$5,103	$8,022	$5,516	$5,875
	Total Cost of Above-Average LOS (A$)#^	$49,585,461	$176,188,003	$225,773,464	$100,903,070	$587,382,179	$688,285,249	$150,488,531	$763,570,182	$914,058,713

^#Study data ^{^}State data ^{#^}Derived from State and Study data A$ All costs in Australian Dollars (2007).

Above-Average LOS = Length of stay longer than the all-ages state average for the patient's DRG, LOS = length of stay.