Table 1.
Demographic and emergency department length of stay.
| Characteristics | Patients | Age (year) | Gender |
ORa | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | ||||
| Short EDLOS (<2 h) | 156 (62.9) | 48.8 ± 20, 15–88 | 112 (71.8) | 44 (28.2) | 7 (4.5) |
| Long EDLOS (>2 h) | 92 (37.1) | 46.8 ± 19, 16–84 | 68 (73.9) | 24 (26.1) | 10 (10.9) |
| Total | 248 | 46 ± 19, 15–88 | 180 (72.6) | 68 (27.4) | 17 (6.9) |
| p value | 0.08 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.08 | |
Values are given as number (percent) or mean ± SD, range.
EDLOS: emergency department length of stay.
a
Present as patients had surgery within 24 h of admission.