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. 2020 Apr 17;20:323. doi: 10.1186/s12913-020-05142-4

Table 1.

Patient demographics of 456,676 in-patients between 2000 and 2013

Acute Psychiatry Surgery Otorhinolaryngology Gynecology & Obstetrics Internal Medicine Pulmonology Neurology Pediatrics
Total patients 26,664 151,063 7664 79,889 126,218 29,228 12,966 22,984
Total deaths 104 4220 5 181 9591 2487 617 26
Crude mortality rate of specialty (%) 0.4 2.8 0.1 0.2 7.6 8.5 4.8 0.1
Male deaths (% of deaths) 81 (77.9) 2196 (52.0) 3 (60) 0 (0) 4777 (49.8) 1621 (65.2) 287 (46.5) 12 (46.2)
Deaths in age group (n)
  < 20 years old (% of all deaths) 0 11 (0.3) 0 (0) 0 (0) 25 (0.3) 3 (0.1) 0 (0) 0–1 years old 11 (42.3)
 20–39 (%) 19 (18.3) 32 (0.8) 0 (0) 6 (3.3) 83 (0.9) 13 (0.5) 5 (0.8) 1–2 4 (15.4)
 40–49 (%) 21 (20.2) 136 (3.2) 0 (0) 12 (6.6) 212 (2.2) 47 (1.9) 9 (1.5) 2–5 3 (11.5)
 50–59 (%) 28 (26.9) 365 (8.6) 0 (0) 44 (24.3) 693 (7.2) 251 (10.1) 36 (5.8) 5–10 4 (15.4)
 60–69 (%) 17 (16.3) 719 (17.0) 0 (0) 40 (22.1) 1294 (13.5) 650 (26.1) 91 (14.7) 10–15 3 (11.5)
 70+ (%) 19 (18.3) 2957 (70.1) 5 (100) 79 (43.6) 7284 (75.9) 1523 (61.2) 476 (77.1) 15–20 1 (3.8)
> 20 0 (0)
Emergency deaths (%) 81 (77.9) 3562 (84.4) 3 (60) 127 (70.2) 8574 (89.4) 2070 (83.2) 539 (87.4) 17 (65.4)