Table 1.

Descriptive statistics and associated diagnostic codes for acute gastroenteritis discharges, 2006–2011 CIHI-HMDB^*

Cause	ICD-10 codes	No. of patients	Median age (yr)	Median length of stay (days)	% Males	% Deaths†	% Post-admission‡
Bacteria	A00–A04.6, A04.8–A05.9	13 712	51	4	49	2·9	4·9
Clostridium difficile	A04.7	83 606	76	17	44	17·5	39·7
Parasite	A06–A06.2, A06.9–A07.9	1017	42	5	56	3·1	3·3
Rotavirus	A08.0	8976	1	2	54	0·2	6·1
Norovirus	A08.1	3264	77	11	42	7·3	46·2
Adenovirus	A08.2	635	1	3	60	2·1	10·1
Other virus	A08.3	2906	4	2	49	1·7	9·5
Unspecified virus	A08.4	46 099	31	2	43	1·0	5·6
Unspecified gastroenteritis	A09–A09.9, K52.8–K52.9	240 137	61	4	41	3·7	12·9

^*Canadian Institutes of Health Information – Hospital Morbidity Database.

^†Percent of total discharges where the discharge disposition was listed as deceased.

^‡Percent of total discharges where diagnostic code of interest was classified as developing post-admission to hospital.