Table 1. Socio-demographic and clinical variables according to the outcome of hospitalization between 2002 and 2017.
| Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics | Admissions to hospitalization between 2002 and 2017 | P valuec | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patients admitted 2002–2017 for LOS analysisa | Patients admitted 2016–2017 for intra-hospital mortality analysisb | |||
| Discharged alive (N = 39,810) |
Discharged alive (N = 5,809) |
Deaths (N = 757) |
||
| Sex | ||||
| Men | 19,796 (49.7%) | 2,974 (51.2%) | 331 (43.7%) | <0.001 |
| Women | 20,014 (50.3%) | 2,835 (48.8%) | 426 (56.3%) | |
| Age (years) (mean ± SD) | 68.1 ± 13.9 | 68.3 ± 13.8 | 70 ± 14.2 | |
| Age (years) | ||||
| <55 | 7,394 (18.6%) | 1,054 (18.1%) | 122 (16.1%) | 0.09 |
| 55–74 | 17,874 (44.9%) | 2,588 (44.6 %) | 323 (42.7%) | |
| 75+ | 14,542 (36.5%) | 2,167 (37.3%) | 312 (41.2%) | |
| Region | ||||
| Lima/Callao | 19,840 (49.8%) | 2,772 (47.7%) | 308 (40.7%) | <0.001 |
| Rest coast | 10,851 (27.3%) | 1,592 (27.4%) | 203 (26.8%) | |
| Amazon | 2,633 (6.6%) | 515 (8.9%) | 66 (8.7%) | |
| Highlands | 6,486 (16.3%) | 930 (16%) | 180 (23.8%) | |
| Facility level | ||||
| I or II | 17,815 (44.8%) | 2,498 (43%) | 388 (51.3%) | <0.001 |
| III | 21,995 (55.2%) | 3,311 (56.9%) | 369 (48.7%) | |
| ICD-10 | ||||
| I60 | 3,374 (8.5%) | 529 (9.1%) | 145 (19.2%) | <0.001 |
| I61 | 6,352 (15.9%) | 1,098 (18.9%) | 193 (25.5%) | |
| I63 | 9,635 (24.2%) | 1,643 (28.3%) | 122 (16.1%) | |
| I64 | 20,449 (51.4%) | 2,539 (43.7%) | 297 (39.2%) | |
| LOS (days) [Median (IQR)]–[Range] |
7 (4–13) [2–55] |
7 (4–12) [1–59] |
5 (2–9) [1–53] |
<0.001 |
Notes:
a
Only, data time to discharge was included.
b
Death data were only available for 2016 and 2017.
c
P-values of intra-hospital mortality obtained through the comparison between categorical variables to the Chi2 test for independence, while this value for numerical variables to the Kruskal-Wallis test.