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Table 2 Number (%) of deaths and readmissions up to 36 months for R and other patients

From: Features and outcomes of unplanned hospital admissions of older people due to ill-defined (R-coded) conditions: Retrospective analysis of hospital admissions data in England

 

Other codes

n = 4165 (78.4)

R-codes

n = 1147 (21.6)

P-value

(X2)

Death

   

In hospital

716 (17.2)

48 (4.2)

<0.001

Within one month

64 (1.5)

10 (0.9)

 

1 to12 months

356 (8.5)

79 (6.9)

 

13 to 36 months

218 (5.2)

59 (5.1)

 

Survived

2811 (67.5)

951 (82.9)

 
 

n = 3449

n = 1099

 

Readmission 1

   

Within 30 days

336 (9.7)

115 (10.5)

0.50

Within one year

1115 (32.3)

333 (30.3)

 

Not readmitted

1998 (57.9)

651 (59.2)

 
  1. 1 Readmissions calculated for the 4548 out of 5312 individuals surviving at first discharge