Table 3.
Patient profile by ward
| Ward | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Specialty | Care Older People | Surgical orthopaedic | Care Older People | Care Older People |
Surgical orthopaedic/ Fracture neck of femura |
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| Phase | Pre-delivery | Post-delivery | Pre-delivery | Post-delivery | Pre-delivery | Post-delivery | Pre-delivery | Post-delivery | Pre-delivery | Post-delivery |
| Period |
Jul 11- Dec 11 |
Jan 12- Jun 12 |
Jul 11- Dec 11 |
Jan 12- Jun 12 |
Jul 11- Apr 12 |
May 12-Sep 12 |
Oct 12- May12 |
Jun 12- Oct12 |
Sep 12- Dec 12 |
Jan 13- Apr 13 |
| Duration (months) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 8b | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| Number of admissions (aged 65 years and over) | 265 | 245 | 197 | 203 | 724 | 406 | 315 | 321 | 169 | 90 |
| Female (%) | 188 (71%) | 169 (69%) | 132 (67%) | 147 (72%) | 382 (53%) | 202 (50%) | 315 (100%) | 321 (100%) | 163 (96%) | 77 (86%) |
| Median (IQR) age | 87 (83–90) | 86 (82–91) | 82 (74–87) | 82 (75–87) | 84 (80–89) | 84 (80–88) | 86 (82–90) | 87 (83–91) | 80 (72–86) | 83 (78–88) |
| Median (IQR) hospital stay | 18 (10–32) | 17 (10–30) | 9 (3–16) | 10 (4–23) | 8 (4–14) | 8 (5–15) | 10 (6–20) | 10 (6–20) | 8 (3–15) | 10 (5–21) |
| Discharge destination | ||||||||||
| Usual residence | 164 (62%) | 141 (58%) | 153 (78%) | 146 (72%) | 427 (59%) | 226 (56%) | 243 (77%) | 235 (73%) | 127 (75%) | 51 (57%) |
| Care home | 36 (14%) | 44 (18%) | 26 (13%) | 27 (13%) | 98 (14%) | 54 (13%) | 31 (10%) | 44 (14%) | 18 (11%) | 20 (22%) |
| Other hospital | 7 (3%) | 4 (2%) | 5 (3%) | 7 (3%) | 74 (10%) | 51 (13%) | 4 (1%) | 1 (0%) | 7 (4%) | 5 (6%) |
| Other | 22 (8%) | 24 (10%) | 8 (4%) | 16 (8%) | 1 (0%) | 6 (2%) | 3 (1%) | 0 (0%) | 8 (5%) | 6 (7%) |
| Died | 36 (14%) | 32 (13%) | 5 (3%) | 7 (3%) | 122 (17%) | 69 (17%) | 34 (11%) | 41 (13%) | 9 (5%) | 8 (9%) |
| Missing data | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
aThe ward changed specialty between the pre-delivery and post- delivery; patient profiles not comparable
bData for pre-delivery only available from Jan 2012 onwards, i.e. 5 months