Table 1.
Clinical characteristics of the patient sample
| Characteristics | No of missing values | Total sample (n=167) |
Women (n=110) |
Men (n=57) |
Orthopaedics and traumatology (n=70) |
Internal medicine (n=68) |
| Age (years) (mean±SD) | 0 | 82.3±7.2 | 82.5±7.5 | 81.8±6.7 | 80.7±7.5* | 84.3±6.6 |
| Women (%) | 0 | 65.9 | 100.0† | 0.0 | 74.3 | 60.3 |
| ADL index before admission‡ | 1 | 5.1±1.1 | 5.1±0.9 | 5.0±1.3 | 5.4±0.8* | 4.8±1.2 |
| IADL index before admission§ | 2 | 4.7±2.4 | 5.1±2.3† | 4.1±2.3 | 5.9±2.2* | 3.5±1.9 |
| Fall during the previous year (%) | 0 | 68.9 | 72.7 | 61.4 | 70.0 | 72.1 |
| Living alone (%) | 0 | 72.5 | 81.8† | 54.4 | 70.0 | 82.4 |
| Home care before hospitalisation (%) | 0 | 64.1 | 63.6 | 64.9 | 42.9* | 79.4 |
| Living in nursing home before hospitalisation (%) | 0 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| FIM¶ | 1 | 86.4±14.3 | 87.9±14.1† | 83.4±14.4 | 86.9±13.2 | 84.9±14.9 |
| MMS** | 0 | 26.7±2.7 | 26.7±2.8 | 26.8±2.7 | 27.2±2.7* | 26.1±2.8 |
| CIRS†† | 72 | 14.3±4.9 | 13.4±4.3† | 16.2±5.5 | 12.5±4.0* | 15.6±5.2 |
| PHQ-9‡‡ | 4 | 7.0±4.8 | 7.0±4.9 | 7.0±4.6 | 6.7±4.8 | 7.2±4.9 |
| SDAT§§ | 69 | 6.0±3.1 | 5.9±2.9 | 6.2±3.5 | 5.8±3.1 | 6.4±3.2 |
| QPP-SF¶¶ | 30 | 72.3±8.5 | 72.6±8.1 | 71.7±9.3 | 71.5±10.0 | 72.9±7.4 |
†Women versus men, p≤0.050.
*Orthopaedics and traumatology versus internal medicine, p≤0.050.
‡Activities of daily living (score range from min. 0 to max. 6).
§Instrumental activities of daily living (0 to 8).
¶Functional independence measure (18 to 126).
**Mini mental state (0 to 30).
††Cumulative illness rating scale (0 to 56).
‡‡Patient health questionnaire-9 (0 to 27).
§§Spiritual distress assessment tool (0 to 15).
¶¶Quality from the patient’s perspective short form (20 to 80).