Table 2.
Age groups of patients who received care in Regional Health Care Network 13, according to main IPDs, from 1998 to 2013
| Age group (years) |
Diagnosis | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meningitis | Pneumonia | Bact/sepsis | Otherb | |||||||
| no | %* | no | %* | no | %* | no | %* | no | % | |
| <1 | 65 | 8.2 | 42 | 5.3 | 5 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 112 | 14.1 |
| 1 ˫ 2 | 29 | 3.6 | 54 | 6.8 | 4 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.1 | 88 | 11.0 |
| 2 ˫ 5 | 33 | 4.1 | 59 | 7.4 | 4 | 0.5 | 2 | 0.3 | 98 | 12.3 |
| Subtotal < 5 | 127 | 16.0 | 155 | 19.5 | 13 | 1.6 | 3 | 0.4 | 298 | 37.4 |
| 5 ˫ 20 | 57 | 7.2 | 44 | 5.5 | 4 | 0.5 | 5 | 0.6 | 110 | 13.8 |
| 20 ˫ 60 | 127 | 16.0 | 101 | 12.7 | 19 | 2.4 | 9 | 1.1 | 256 | 32.2 |
| ≥60 | 42 | 5.3 | 50 | 6.3 | 9 | 1.1 | 6 | 0.8 | 107 | 2.1 |
| Subtotal ≥ 5 | 226 | 28.4 | 195 | 24.5 | 32 | 4.0 | 20 | 2.5 | 473 | 59.4 |
| Ignoreda | 11 | 1.4 | 8 | 1.0 | 4 | 0.5 | 2 | 0.3 | 25 | 3.1 |
| Total | 364 | 45.7 | 358 | 45.0 | 49 | 6.2 | 25 | 3.1 | 796 | 100.0 |
%* refers to the total cases
aPatients without information on their age
bAbscess, arthritis, peritonitis, pancreatitis, cirrhosis, surgical site infection and appendicitis