Table 1. Characteristics of bedridden hospitalized patients (N = 23,738).
| Characteristics | Total N (%) |
Survival N (%) |
Dead N (%) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | males | 13436 (56.6) | 12735 (56.3) | 701 (62.9) |
| females | 10302 (43.4) | 9889 (43.7) | 413 (37.1) | |
| Age (year) | 18–44 | 5317 (22.4) | 5340 (23.2) | 77 (6.9) |
| 45–59 | 7306 (30.8) | 7104 (31.4) | 202 (18.1) | |
| ≥60 | 11115 (46.8) | 10280 (45.4) | 835 (75.0) | |
| Education | Elementary school or below | 9408 (39.6) | 8811 (38.9) | 597 (53.6) |
| Junior/ senior high school | 10753 (45.3) | 10339 (45.7) | 414 (37.2) | |
| Junior college or above | 3577 (15.1) | 3474 (15.4) | 103 (9.2) | |
| Smoking | Never smoking | 17357 (73.1) | 16593 (73.3) | 764 (68.6) |
| Quit smoking | 5205 (21.9) | 4968 (22.0) | 237 (21.3) | |
| Smoking | 1176 (5.0) | 1063 (4.7) | 113 (10.1) | |
| Hospital type | Tertiary hospital | 19310 (81.3) | 18519 (81.9) | 791 (71.0) |
| Nontertiary hospital | 4119 (17.4) | 3845 (17.0) | 274 (24.6) | |
| Community hospital | 309 (1.3) | 260 (1.1) | 49 (4.4) | |
| Type of immobility related complications | ||||
| Pressure ulcer | No | 22971 (96.8) | 22000 (97.2) | 971 (87.2) |
| Yes | 767 (3.2) | 624 (2.8) | 143 (12.8) | |
| Pulmonary infection | ||||
| No | 21066 (88.7) | 20439 (90.3) | 627 (56.3) | |
| Yes | 2672 (11.3) | 2185 (9.7) | 487 (43.7) | |
| Deep venous thrombosis | ||||
| No | 23304 (98.2) | 22227 (98.2) | 1077 (96.7) | |
| Yes | 434 (1.8) | 397 (1.8) | 37 (3.3) | |
| Urinary tract infection | ||||
| No | 23359 (98.4) | 22296 (98.6) | 1063 (95.4) | |
| Yes | 379 (1.6) | 328 (1.4) | 51 (4.6) | |
| Charlson comorbidity index score | ||||
| 0 | 2939 (12.4) | 2922 (12.9) | 17 (1.5) | |
| 1~2 | 6850 (28.9) | 6737 (29.8) | 113 (10.1) | |
| 3~4 | 7989 (33.7) | 7681 (34.0) | 308 (27.6) | |
| ≥5 | 5960 (25.1) | 5284 (23.4) | 676 (60.7) | |
| Bedridden time before enrollment (days) | ||||
| 0 | 965 (4.1) | 923 (4.1) | 42 (3.8) | |
| 1~7 | 21778 (91.7) | 20776 (91.8) | 1002 (89.9) | |
| 8~14 | 532 (2.2) | 510 (2.3) | 22 (2.0) | |
| ≥15 | 463 (2.0) | 415 (1.8) | 48 (4.3) | |
| Total bedridden time (days) | ||||
| 0~7 | 15063 (63.5) | 14610 (64.6) | 453 (40.7) | |
| 8~14 | 4613 (19.4) | 4300 (19.0) | 313 (28.1) | |
| ≥15 | 4062 (17.1) | 3714 (16.4) | 348 (31.2) | |
| Length of stay (days) | ||||
| ≤7 | 4344 (18.3) | 4034 (17.8) | 310 (27.8) | |
| 8~14 | 9075 (38.2) | 8749 (38.7) | 326 (29.3) | |
| ≥15 | 10216 (43.0) | 9742 (43.1) | 474 (42.5) | |
| Missed data | 103 (0.4) | 99 (0.4) | 4 (0.4) | |