Table 2.
Proportion of health service use for each health condition
| Inpatient admissions |
ED attendances |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Years 2016-2019 (pre-COVID) | 2020 – February 2021 (COVID) | Years 2016-2019 (pre-COVID) | 2020 – February 2021 (COVID) | |
| Number (Column %)2 | Number (Column %) | Number (Column %) | Number (Column %) | |
| Total number of admissions | 204328 (100) | 57999 (100) | 359377 (100) | 96049 (100) |
| Total Chronic conditions related3 | 107946 (52.8) | 31789 (54.8) | 26594 (7.4) | 7004 (7.3) |
| Mental health/behavioural | 8162 (7.6) | 3508 (11) | 4086 (15.4) | 1351 (19.3) |
| Cancer/blood disorders | 29249 (27.1) | 8685 (27.3) | 2348 (8.8) | 743 (10.6) |
| Chronic infections | 738 (0.7) | 213 (0.7) | 164 (0.6) | 43 (0.6) |
| Respiratory | 17521 (16.2) | 4648 (14.6) | 6242 (23.5) | 1273 (18.2) |
| Metabolic 4 | 32473 (30.1) | 9959 (31.3) | 3150 (11.8) | 840 (12.0) |
| Musculoskeletal/skin | 19583 (18.1) | 5298 (16.7) | 3114 (11.7) | 707 (10.1) |
| Neurological | 24816 (23.0) | 7100 (22.3) | 5973 (22.5) | 1645 (23.5) |
| Cardiovascular | 9445 (8.8) | 2670 (8.4) | 113 (0.4) | 19 (0.3) |
| Non-specific chronic conditions | 7792 (7.2) | 2603 (8.2) | 1404 (5.3) | 383 (5.5) |
| Total Acute infectious conditions related | 35426 (17.3) | 9347 (16.1) | 70783 (19.7) | 17609 (18.3) |
| Total Injury related5 | 24620 (12.1) | 7953 (13.7) | 94225 (26.2) | 26709 (27.8) |
| Unintentional injuries | 23373 (94.9) | 7452 (93.7) | 748 (0.8) | 217 (0.8) |
| Intentional injuries | 859 (3.5) | 435 (5.5) | 1117 (1.2) | 333 (1.2) |
| Unspecified intent | 388 (1.6) | 66 (0.8) | 92360 (98.0) | 26159 (97.9) |
Each admission episode may have multiple diagnoses. Thus, the sum of the proportions of health conditions may exceed 100%.
The denominators for the propotion in italic were the total number of health service use on the first row; the denominators for other proportions were the category's total number of health service use
Chronic conditions that require severity criteria for identification were not included in the calculation of ED attendances. 4 Metabolic/endocrine/digestive/renal/genitourinary conditions
As there is only one diagnosis available in the ED data, the majority of injury records are coded with an ICD consequence code (ie, S or T codes) and do not have an external code that helps determine the intent involved in the injury.