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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 4.
Published in final edited form as: South Med J. 2016 Sep;109(9):583–587. doi: 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000000526

Table 3.

Comparison of hospitalization characteristics between single and index admissions

Index (n = 63) Single admission (n = 239) P
Length of stay, d 9.14 (7.51) 5.87 (7.46) 0.003
Service, % 0.104
 General medicine 25.4 31.8
 Hematology 15.9 24.3
 Hospitalist 49.2 32.6
 Other 9.5 11.3
Crisis diagnosis 85.7 77.8 0.168
Average daily opioid dose 617.7 (580.9) 524.4 (766.9) 0.315

Length of stay is reported in mean days (standard deviation). Average daily opioid dose is reported in mean milligrams morphine equivalents (standard deviation).