Table 3.

Number of patients in each disease cohort

Condition	Number of patientsa
	Admitted on weekday	Admitted at weekend	Total
Chronic pulmonary disease	83,938	27,519	111,457
Diabetes	80,419	26,014	106,433
Congestive heart failure	27,244	9203	36,447
Dementia	22,115	8881	30,996
Hemiplegia / paraplegia	5755	2053	7808
Metastatic cancer	4503	1374	5877

^aPatients with at least two emergency admissions with the relevant condition recorded between 2009 and 2011 and a further admission in 2011–2013 where the relevant condition was not the primary diagnosis