Table 1.
Characteristics of the contacts, hospital, and care process according to the hospital-at-home modality.
| Admission Avoidance (n = 7214) |
Early Discharge (n = 2387) |
p Value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | ||
| Mean age in years (SD) | 69.9 (17.2) | 69.6 (16.8) | 0.309 |
| Sex | 0.013 | ||
| Male | 3800 (52.7) | 1327 (55.6) | |
| Female | 3414 (47.3) | 1060 (44.4) | |
| Diagnostic group | <0.001 | ||
| Respiratory system diseases | 2440 (33.8) | 780 (32.7) | |
| Genitourinary system diseases | 976 (13.5) | 412 (17.3) | |
| Circulatory system diseases | 1030 (14.3) | 234 (9.8) | |
| Osteomioarticular and connective tissue system diseases | 747 (10.4) | 137 (5.7) | |
| Lesions and intoxications | 499 (6.9) | 250 (10.5) | |
| Digestive tract diseases | 470 (6.5) | 268 (11.2) | |
| Skin and subcutaneous tissue diseases | 363 (5.0) | 79 (3.3) | |
| Neoplasms | 247 (3.4) | 53 (2.2) | |
| Central nervous system and sense organ diseases | 131 (1.8) | 62 (2.6) | |
| Badly defined symptoms, signs, and conditions | 138 (1.9) | 46 (1.9) | |
| Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, and immunity disorders | 106 (1.5) | 42 (1.8) | |
| Blood and hematopoietic organ diseases | 67 (0.9) | 24 (1.0) | |
| Comorbidity (Charlson Index) | 0.626 | ||
| 0 or 1 | 4479 (62.1) | 1477 (61.9) | |
| 2 | 1168 (16.2) | 405 (17.0) | |
| ≥ 3 | 1567 (21.7) | 505 (21.2) | |
| Type of hospital | <0.001 | ||
| Reference hospital | 2673 (37.1) | 534 (22.4) | |
| District hospital | 2322 (32.2) | 738 (30.9) | |
| High-technology general hospital | 1029 (14.3) | 608 (25.5) | |
| High-resolution reference hospital | 1190 (16.5) | 507 (21.2) | |
| Number of contacts per patient | 0.254 | ||
| 1 | 5383 (74.6) | 1809 (75.8) | |
| >1 | 1831 (25.4) | 578 (24.2) |
n: number of contacts; %: percentage of contacts; SD: standard deviation. p: p-value obtained with Chi-square test and Fisher’s test for categorical variables, and Mann–Whitney U for age.