Table 2.

Numbers and percentages of patients admitted to hospital within 30 and 120 days, by reason for admission.

Reason for admission	Admissions within 30 days		Admissions within 120 days
	No.	%	No.	%
All patients combined
Haemorrhagea	14	2.8	62	2.1
Infectiona	19	3.9	102	3.5
Other procedure-related complicationsa	0	0.0	2	0.1
Other urinary symptomsa	81	16.5	366	12.5
Multiple complicationsb	24	4.9	45	1.5
Other reasons	354	72.0	2352	80.3
Totalc	492	100	2929	100
Patients diagnosed with prostate cancerd
Haemorrhagea	4	1.8	22	1.2
Infectiona	6	2.8	39	2.1
Other procedure-related complicationsa	0	0.0	1	0.1
Other urinary symptomsa	31	14.2	236	13.0
Multiple complicationsb	6	2.8	18	1.0
Other reasons	171	78.4	1500	82.6
Totalc	218	100	1816	100
Patients not diagnosed with prostate cancerd
Haemorrhagea	10	3.6	40	3.6
Infectiona	13	4.7	63	5.7
Other procedure-related complicationsa	0	0.0	1	0.1
Other urinary symptomsa	50	18.2	130	11.7
Multiple complicationsb	18	6.6	27	2.4
Other reasons	183	66.8	852	76.5
Totalc	274	100	1113	100

^aBased on any mention of relevant ICD-10/OPCS-4 codes (See Appendix).

^bPatients who fall into more than one of the preceding four categories.

^cTotal continuous inpatient stays.

^dWithin 120 days, before or after prostate biopsy date.