Table 2.

Aggregate data for each priority

Priority #	N	Mean	Median	Std. deviation	Minimum	Maximum	% of total N
/	249	429.91	60.00	3656.988	4	55,346	11.2%
1	7	88.86	89.00	64.955	8	187	0.3%
2	45	23,191.29	127.00	111,044.621	4	714,654	2.0%
3	26	81.08	58.50	64.974	12	244	1.2%
4	298	1269.14	66.00	18,700.061	3	322,869	13.4%
5	66	79.62	48.50	105.231	5	743	3.0%
6	8	6848.25	49.00	19,220.342	9	54,416	0.4%
7	26	90.38	42.50	92.078	5	280	1.2%
8	18	5212.39	187.50	12,602.700	36	50,605	0.8%
9	178	1501.21	63.00	10,118.974	5	109,728	8.0%
10	49	4162.00	88.00	20,637.732	6	141,450	2.2%
11	33	5969.91	109.00	33,041.216	4	190,021	1.5%
12	13	751.31	54.00	2500.028	3	9071	0.6%
13	3	47.67	36.00	34.990	20	87	0.1%
14	12	75.75	65.00	45.965	17	156	0.5%
15	1046	2519.87	64.50	42,632.284	2	1,323,979	46.9%
16	21	2810.43	42.00	12,490.841	8	57,323	0.9%
17	29	87.86	44.00	168.768	7	916	1.3%
18	7	273.14	208.00	235.099	110	778	0.3%
19	15	1139.80	79.00	4046.535	14	15,761	0.7%
20	9	38.78	39.00	19.156	8	73	0.4%
21	3	69.00	47.00	40.731	44	116	0.1%
22	35	130.37	45.00	208.829	1	1009	1.6%
23	3	46,530.33	587.00	79,901.167	212	138,792	0.1%
24	4	77.00	67.50	63.577	11	162	0.2%
25	7	127.71	45.00	170.041	8	481	0.3%
26	20	269.70	54.50	708.927	12	3209	0.9%
Total	2230	2346.73	63.00	34,630.011	1	1,323,979	100.0%

N number of papers, Mean mean number of patients per paper, Median median number of patients per paper. Std. Deviation is the standard deviation of N within each priority. Maximum and minimum refer to number of patients in each paper. % of total N shows the percentage of all patients in each priority. The total number of papers shown here (2230) is less than total number of papers in the database (2261) because not all papers have an N (i.e. not all papers reported the number of patients)