Table 2.
Distributions of characteristics of appropriateness admission under the subjective perception of patients
| Variable | Elderly | Non-elderly | ||||||
| N (column %) | Appropriate | Inappropriate | P values | N (column %) | Appropriate | Inappropriate | P values | |
| N (line %) | N (line %) | N (line %) | N (line %) | |||||
| RTDAR | ||||||||
| No doubt | 63 (27.4) | 90 (56.3) | 70 (43.8) | 0.119 | 160 (37.9) | 46 (73.0) | 17 (27.0) | 0.007 |
| Doubt | 17 (7.4) | 16 (59.3) | 11 (40.7) | 27 (6.4) | 16 (94.1) | 1 (5.9) | ||
| Expected | 124 (53.9) | 124 (65.3) | 66 (34.7) | 190 (45.0) | 84 (67.7) | 40 (32.3) | ||
| Family requirements | 13 (5.7) | 8 (80.0) | 2 (20.0） | 10 (2.4) | 8 (61.5) | 5 (38.5) | ||
| Others | 13 (5.7) | 12 (34.3) | 23 (65.7) | 35 (8.3) | 7 (53.8) | 6 (46.2) | ||
| Disease severity | ||||||||
| Light | 8 (3.5) | 39 (58.2) | 28 (41.8) | 0.546 | 67 (15.9) | 7 (87.5) | 1 (12.5) | 0.697 |
| General | 46 (20.0) | 63 (56.3) | 49 (43.8) | 112 (26.5) | 32 (69.6) | 14 (30.4) | ||
| Serious | 176 (76.5) | 148 (60.9) | 95 (39.1) | 243 (57.6) | 122 (69.3) | 54 (30.7) | ||
| Comparison of RO and RI | ||||||||
| RO>RI | 62 (27.0) | 37 (80.4) | 9 (19.6) | 0.003 | 46 (10.9) | 54 (87.1) | 8 (12.9) | 0.003 |
| RI>RO | 101 (43.9) | 101 (53.2) | 89 (46.8) | 190 (45.0) | 64 (56.1) | 37 (43.9) | ||
| Unknown | 67 (29.1) | 112 (60.2) | 74 (39.8) | 186 (44.1) | 43 (70.9) | 24 (29.1) | ||
| Affordability | ||||||||
| Difficult | 73 (31.7) | 37 (61.7) | 23 (38.3) | 0.009 | 60 (14.2) | 61 (83.6) | 12 (16.4) | 0.842 |
| Reluctantly | 83 (36.1) | 124 (57.9) | 90 (42.1) | 214 (50.7) | 54 (65.1) | 29 (34.9) | ||
| Fully payable | 74 (32.2) | 89 (60.1) | 59 (39.9) | 148 (35.1) | 46 (62.2) | 28 (37.8) | ||
| Hospitalisation convenience | ||||||||
| Yes | 116 (50.4) | 169 (60.8) | 109 (39.2) | 0.085 | 278 (65.9) | 75 (64.7) | 41 (35.3) | 0.368 |
| No | 114 (49.6) | 81 (56.3) | 63 (43.8) | 144 (34.1) | 86 (75.4) | 28 (24.6) | ||
RI, reimbursement of inpatient; RO, reimbursement of outpatient; RTDAR, response to doctor’s admission requirement.