Table 1.
Description of the sample at the time of index admission
| Variables | N = 136 451 |
|---|---|
| Gender, female (%) | 62.8 |
| Age, median [min-max] | 38 [9–94] |
| Age distribution (%): | |
| ⩽25 | 26.0 |
| 26 to 64 | 67.9 |
| ⩾65 | 6.1 |
| Type of living place (%): | |
| City centre | 48.0 |
| Suburbs | 32.8 |
| Small towns | 10.6 |
| Rural areas | 8.6 |
| Means used for index DSH (%)*: | |
| Drugs | 82.1 |
| Unspecified means | 5.6 |
| Alcohol ingestion | 5.0 |
| Cutting with sharp or blunt objects | 4.9 |
| Ingestion of unspecified chemicals or noxious substances | 2.4 |
| Hanging, strangulation or suffocation | 1.6 |
| Jumping from a high place | 0.9 |
| Firearm discharge | 0.4 |
| Other specified means | 0.4 |
| Drowning and submersion | 0.3 |
| Gases and vapors | 0.3 |
| Jumping or lying in front of moving objects or crashing of motor vehicles | 0.2 |
| Use of explosive material, smoke, fire and flames, and steam, hot vapours and hot objects | 0.2 |
| Use of a violent means (%) | 11.2 |
| Only means codes (%) | 91.7 |
| Type of index hospitalisation (%): | |
| General hospital | 71.9 |
| Academic hospital (CHU) | 23.7 |
| Private clinic | 4.4 |
| Admission to an intensive care unit (%) | 12.9 |
| Charlson Comorbidity index ⩾0 | 6.0 |
| Mean Charlson index score when different from 0 (sd) | 2.0 (1.4) |
| Duration of index hospital stay (%): | |
| <24 h | 16.8 |
| 1 days | 51.0 |
| 2–7 days | 25.3 |
| >7 days | 6.9 |
| Mean duration of hospital stay (sd) | 2.4 (4.1) |
| Following hospitalisation (%): | |
| Discharged home | 71.3 |
| Transfer to psychiatric hospital in-patient care | 23.7 |
| Transfer to another medical or surgery department | 5.0 |
Footnotes: *Some individuals are counted twice in case of use of multiple means.