Table 3. Patient characteristics.
| Characteristics | Medical patients | Neurological patients | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | PAC facility discharge | Home discharge | Total | PAC facility discharge | Home discharge | |
| Number of patients | N = 1342 | N = 150 | N = 1192 | N = 402 | N = 94 | N = 308 |
| Age: median (IQR) | 69 (57–78) | 77.5* (69–83) | 68* (56–77) | 69 (55–78) | 76* (65–81) | 66* (52–77) |
| Number of men (%) | 58.7 | 39.3* | 61.2* | 55.5 | 54.3 | 55.8 |
| Discharge from | ||||||
| hospital to (%): | ||||||
| Home | 88.8 | 0 | 100 | 76.6 | 0 | 100 |
| Nursing home | 4.3 | 38 | 1.3 | 5.3 | ||
| Home for the elderly | 1.1 | 10 | 0.3 | 1.1 | ||
| Rehabilitation | 5.8 | 52 | 21.9 | 93.6 | ||
| ICD-10 main diagnosis (%): | ||||||
| Infectious and parasitic | ||||||
| diseases | 13.7 | 14* | 13.7* | 3.48 | 2.1* | 4.0* |
| Diseases of the respiratory | ||||||
| system | 12.3 | 12.7* | 12.3* | 0.25 | 0* | 0.3* |
| Diseases of the circulatory | ||||||
| system | 27.1 | 21.3* | 27.9* | 38.5 | 73.4* | 27.9* |
| Diseases of the digestive | ||||||
| system | 11.3 | 5.3* | 12.1* | .5 | 1.1* | 0.3* |
| Neoplasms | 10.4 | 8* | 10.7* | 1.7 | 0* | 2.0* |
| Diseases of the nervous | ||||||
| system | 0.7 | 3.3* | 0.3* | 37.8 | 16.0* | 44.5* |
| Others | 24.5 | 35.4* | 23* | 17.8 | 7.4* | 21* |
| Length of hospital stay (days): | ||||||
| median (IQR): | 6 (4–9) | 14* (10–21) | 5* (3–8) | 6 (3–10) | 14* (10–15) | 5* (3–7) |
| PACD (Score) median (IQR) | 6 (3–10) | 10.5* (7–15) | 5* (3–9) | 4 (2–7) | 5.5* (3–9) | 3* (2–6) |
| SPI (Score) median (IQR) | 38 (34–40) | 30* (25–35) | 38* (35–40) | 38 (32–40) | 30* (20–37) | 39* (35–40) |
* Statistically significantly different (PAC facility vs. home discharge); p<0.05
Abbreviations: ICD: International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision; IQR: interquartile range; N: Numbers; PACD: post-acute care discharge score; SPI: self-care index; PAC: post-acute care