Table 1.
Number of urgent hospital admissions according to sociodemographic, clinical and health resource characteristics, broken down by weekday or weekend
| Number of hospital admissions | χ2 P value |
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| Total | Weekday | Weekend | |||||
| N | % | N | % | N | % | ||
| Total | 72 427 | 52 470 | 72.45 | 19 957 | 27.55 | ||
| Sex | 0.169 | ||||||
| Man | 37 204 | 51.37 | 27 035 | 51.52 | 10 169 | 50.95 | |
| Woman | 35 222 | 48.63 | 25 434 | 48.47 | 9788 | 49.05 | |
| Age | <0.001 | ||||||
| <5 years | 1105 | 1.53 | 780 | 1.49 | 325 | 1.63 | |
| 5–17 years | 561 | 0.77 | 380 | 0.72 | 181 | 0.91 | |
| 18–39 years | 1385 | 1.91 | 957 | 1.82 | 428 | 2.14 | |
| 40–65 years | 13 293 | 18.35 | 9593 | 18.28 | 3700 | 18.54 | |
| 66–80 years | 21 709 | 29.97 | 15 927 | 30.35 | 5782 | 28.97 | |
| >80 years | 34 374 | 47.46 | 24 833 | 47.33 | 9541 | 47.81 | |
| Income level | 0.312 | ||||||
| Exhausted unemployment subsidy, RMI, RAI, PNC and others | 3123 | 4.31 | 2272 | 4.33 | 851 | 4.26 | |
| Income less than €18 000 | 53 811 | 74.30 | 38 937 | 74.21 | 14 874 | 74.54 | |
| Income between €18 000 and €100 000 | 15 198 | 20.99 | 11 060 | 21.08 | 4138 | 20.74 | |
| Income greater than €100 000 | 291 | 0.40 | 199 | 0.38 | 92 | 0.46 | |
| Diagnosis | <0.001 | ||||||
| Hip fracture | 9341 | 12.90 | 6522 | 12.43 | 2819 | 14.13 | |
| Gastrointestinal bleeding | 6436 | 8.89 | 4656 | 8.87 | 1780 | 8.92 | |
| ST-elevation myocardial infarction | 4430 | 6.12 | 3131 | 5.97 | 1299 | 6.51 | |
| Non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction | 3686 | 5.09 | 2704 | 5.15 | 982 | 4.92 | |
| Heart failure | 20 578 | 28.41 | 15 474 | 29.49 | 5104 | 25.57 | |
| Stroke | 11 972 | 16.53 | 8497 | 16.19 | 3475 | 17.41 | |
| Pneumonia | 15 984 | 22.07 | 11 486 | 21.89 | 4498 | 22.54 | |
| AMG | 0.950 | ||||||
| Healthy patient | 1115 | 1.55 | 805 | 1.55 | 310 | 1.57 | |
| Acute disorder | 1039 | 1.44 | 736 | 1.41 | 303 | 1.53 | |
| Chronic pathologies affecting 1 system | 2340 | 3.25 | 1693 | 3.25 | 647 | 3.27 | |
| Chronic pathologies affecting 2–3 systems | 8044 | 11.19 | 5825 | 11.18 | 2219 | 11.20 | |
| Chronic pathologies affecting >3 systems | 45 020 | 62.61 | 32 657 | 62.68 | 12 363 | 62.42 | |
| Births and pregnancies | 66 | 0.09 | 48 | 0.09 | 18 | 0.09 | |
| Active neoplasia | 14 286 | 19.87 | 10 339 | 19.84 | 3947 | 19.93 | |
| Hospital level | 0.277 | ||||||
| High-tech public hospital | 19 984 | 27.59 | 14 549 | 27.73 | 5435 | 27.23 | |
| Monographic high-tech public hospital | 436 | 0.60 | 308 | 0.59 | 128 | 0.64 | |
| High-resolution public hospital | 13 450 | 18.57 | 9801 | 18.68 | 3649 | 18.28 | |
| Reference public hospital | 21 292 | 29.40 | 15 370 | 29.29 | 5922 | 29.67 | |
| Regional public hospital | 16 041 | 22.15 | 11 576 | 22.06 | 4465 | 22.37 | |
| Isolated public hospital | 1224 | 1.69 | 866 | 1.65 | 358 | 1.79 | |
| Origin | 0.348 | ||||||
| Home or nursing home | 36 352 | 50.20 | 26 340 | 50.20 | 10 012 | 50.17 | |
| Primary care | 3259 | 4.50 | 2402 | 4.58 | 857 | 4.29 | |
| Other hospital | 5141 | 7.10 | 3699 | 7.05 | 1442 | 7.23 | |
| Unit or service of the same hospital | 27 669 | 38.21 | 20 024 | 38.17 | 7645 | 38.31 | |
| Primary care emergency in the last 24 hours | 0.408 | ||||||
| Yes | 2801 | 3.87 | 2010 | 3.83 | 791 | 3.96 | |
| No | 69 626 | 96.13 | 50 460 | 96.17 | 19 166 | 96.04 | |
| MES in the last 24 hours | 0.591 | ||||||
| Yes | 46 504 | 64.21 | 33 721 | 64.27 | 12 783 | 64.05 | |
| No | 25 923 | 35.79 | 18 749 | 35.73 | 7174 | 35.95 | |
| Hospital emergency in the last 24 hours | 0.652 | ||||||
| Yes | 66 789 | 92.22 | 48 371 | 92.19 | 18 418 | 92.29 | |
| No | 5638 | 7.78 | 4099 | 7.81 | 1539 | 7.71 | |
AMG, Adjusted Morbidity Group; MES, Medical Emergencies Service; PNC, unremarkable pension; RAI, active insertion income; RMI, minimum insertion income.