Table 3.

Event counts in the matched data

Event type	Count		% of total		% of discharged
	NHS	ISHP	NHS	ISHP	NHS	ISHP
In-hospital death (A)*	92	9	0.04	0.00
Emergency transfer (B1)*	180	216	0.07	0.09
Non-emergency transfer (B2)*	1132	106	0.47	0.04
Death within 28 days of transfer	10	11	0.00	0.00
Long-term stay† (C2)*	53	12	0.02	0.00
Discharge (C1)*	239 530	240 644	99.40	99.86
Death‡ (D)*	87	109	0.04	0.05	0.04	0.05
Emergency readmission‡ (E)*	12 048	8073	5.00	3.35	5.03	3.34
of which within specialty	6334	3569	2.63	1.48	2.64	1.48
Remainder‡ (F)*	227 437	232 509	94.38	96.48	94.95	96.62
Total operations§	240 987	240 987

*See figure 1 for label correspondence.

†Defined as >60 days in hospital.

‡D–E are events occurring within 28 days of discharge while F is the number of discharged patients who do not meet D or E within 28 days.

§Note that since these event counts are for the data after propensity score matching, the total count is much lower than for the raw data in table 2.

ISHP, Independent Sector Healthcare Provider; NHS, National Health Service.