Table 3.
Information on admission, transportation, and clinical course of the patients who experience an overdose.
| Age groups |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | Total, % (n = 21,663) | 0–11 years (n = 647) | 12–18 years (n = 949) | 19–34 years (n = 6613) | 35–49 years (n = 5182) | 50–64 years (n = 2870) | 65–74 years (n = 1708) | ≥75 years (n = 3694) |
| Admission on the initial day | ||||||||
| General wards | 54.3 | 97.4 | 55.5 | 45.3 | 45.4 | 52.1 | 61.1 | 73.4 |
| Intensive care unit | 36.5 | 2.2 | 36.1 | 44.7 | 44.2 | 36.2 | 29.0 | 20.7 |
| Psychiatric wards | 6.9 | ≤1.4 | 5.9 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 9.1 | 6.1 | 2.6 |
| Others | 2.4 | ≤1.4 | 2.4 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 3.4 |
| Hospital transfer during the episode | ||||||||
| None | 90.9 | 99.8 | 94.7 | 93.1 | 90.6 | 86.7 | 88.6 | 89.4 |
| Psychiatric wards | 5.7 | ≤1.4 | 3.8 | 5.0 | 7.4 | 9.6 | 6.3 | 2.9 |
| General/other wards | 3.3 | ≤1.4 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 3.7 | 5.1 | 7.7 |
| Length of stay during the episode, days | ||||||||
| 1 | 10.4 | 3.7 | 10.9 | 14.4 | 13.0 | 9.3 | 6.8 | 3.3 |
| 2–3 | 47.0 | 84.4 | 59.7 | 56.9 | 51.1 | 41.7 | 34.8 | 23.5 |
| 4–7 | 16.1 | 9.1 | 19.1 | 14.9 | 15.2 | 15.9 | 18.4 | 19.2 |
| 8–30 | 14.6 | 2.3 | 5.8 | 7.9 | 10.2 | 15.5 | 22.1 | 32.8 |
| ≥31 | 11.9 | ≤1.4 | 4.5 | 5.9 | 10.6 | 17.7 | 17.9 | 21.2 |
| Death during the episode | 2.0 | ≤1.4 | ≤0.9 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 3.0 | 6.5 |
Cells with counts ≤9 cannot be reported according to the cell size suppression policy of the database. Following proportions were calculated for all cells using the actual numbers, proportions for the cells with counts ≤9 are displayed with the numerators equal to 9 along with the ≤signs.