Table 2.
Hospital admission characteristics and length of stay. Cancer of Unknown Primary diagnosed during hospital admission, 1998–2011, West of Scotland, N = 5397. p for Pearson’s chi-square test
| 1998–2002 | 2003–2007 | 2008–2011 | Total | p | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Col % | N | Col % | N | Col % | N | Col % | ||
| Total | 2212 | (100) | 1939 | (100) | 1246 | (100) | 5397 | (100) | |
| Type of admission | |||||||||
| Elective | 299 | (13.5) | 201 | (10.4) | 117 | (9.4) | 617 | (11.4) | |
| Emergency | 1913 | (86.5) | 1738 | (89.6) | 1129 | (90.6) | 4780 | (88.6) | <0.001 |
| Specialty of admission | |||||||||
| Geriatric medicine | 258 | (11.7) | 222 | (11.4) | 124 | (10) | 604 | (11.2) | |
| Medicine | 1203 | (54.4) | 1083 | (55.9) | 751 | (60.3) | 3037 | (56.3) | |
| Surgery | 685 | (31.0) | 588 | (30.3) | 329 | (26.4) | 1602 | (29.7) | |
| Other | 66 | (3.0) | 46 | (2.4) | 42 | (3.4) | 154 | (2.9) | 0.013 |
| days in hospital | |||||||||
| 1–7 days | 500 | (22.0) | 450 | (22.7) | 340 | (26.4) | 1290 | (23.3) | |
| 8–14 days | 548 | (24.1) | 429 | (21.6) | 284 | (22) | 1261 | (22.7) | |
| 15–30 days | 701 | (30.9) | 618 | (31.1) | 362 | (28.1) | 1681 | (30.3) | |
| 31+ days | 463 | (20.4) | 442 | (22.3) | 260 | (20.2) | 1165 | (21.0) | 0.016 |
N number of patients, Col % column percentage