Table 1.
Patient demographics for all inpatient admissions or ED attendances
| Inpatient admissions |
ED attendances |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Years 2016-2019 (pre-COVID) | 2020 – February 2021 (COVID) | Years 2016-2019 (pre-COVID) | 2020 – February 2021 (COVID) | |
| Number (Column %) | Number (Column %) | Number (Column %) | Number (Column %) | |
| Total number of admissions | 204328 (100) | 57999 (100) | 359377 (100) | 96049 (100) |
| Patient sex | ||||
| Male | 117462 (57.5) | 33263 (57.4) | 204384 (56.9) | 54041 (56.3) |
| Female | 86680 (42.4) | 24650 (42.5) | 154343 (43.0) | 41734 (43.5) |
| Unknown | 186 (0.1) | 86 (0.2) | 650 (0.2) | 274 (0.3) |
| Patient age (year) | ||||
| < 1 | 32213 (15.8) | 8551 (14.7) | 59674 (16.6) | 15282 (15.9) |
| 1 – 4 | 67618 (33.1) | 18652 (32.2) | 140083 (39.0) | 37118 (38.6) |
| 5 – 11 | 62648 (30.7) | 17147 (29.6) | 109748 (30.5) | 28338 (29.5) |
| 12 – 17 | 41849 (20.5) | 13649 (23.5) | 49872 (13.9) | 15311 (15.9) |
| Patient residence socioeconomic disadvantage quartiles (postcode-level) | ||||
| Q1 - most disadvantaged | 48314 (23.7) | 13478 (23.2) | 70313 (19.6) | 17968 (18.7) |
| Q2 | 32092 (15.7) | 8825 (15.2) | 39504 (11.0) | 10013 (10.4) |
| Q3 | 47236 (23.1) | 14023 (24.2) | 102243 (28.5) | 27328 (28.5) |
| Q4 – most advantaged | 73409 (35.9) | 21084 (36.4) | 143275 (39.9) | 39615 (41.2) |
| Unknown | 3277 (1.6) | 589 (1.0) | 4042 (1.1) | 1125 (1.2) |
| Hospitals | ||||
| The Children's Hospital at Westmead | 133496 (65.3) | 40001 (69.0) | 215205 (59.9) | 58377 (60.8) |
| Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick | 70832 (34.7) | 17998 (31.0) | 144172 (40.1) | 37672 (39.2) |