Emergency department transfers and hospital admissions from residential aged care facilities: a controlled pre-post design study

Table 2 Patient and RACF characteristics pre- and post-intervention within intervention groups. Pre-period reflects 2 years, where as post period reflects 1 year

Characteristic	Time	Control	Intervention
Age: mean (SD) Years	Pre	86.1 (5.4)	85.9 (5.2)
	Post	85.9 (5.3)	86.0 (5.1)
Annual ED presentations: N	Pre	653	604
	Post	468	525
Mean ED length of stay (Minutes) (SD)	Pre	496.7 (302.7)	496.3 (267.3)
	Post	481.7 (331.1)	435.7 (315.9)
Annual Hospital admissions: N	Pre	399.5	399
	Post	317	312
Mean Hospital length of stay (Days): mean (SD)	Pre	10.0 (14.8)	9.4 (13.7)
	Post	8.0 (11.0)	6.3 (8.5)
Annual Individual patients: N	Pre	415	360
	Post	246	172
Presentations per patient: mean (SD)	Pre	1.55 (1.0)	1.66 (1.1)
	Post	1.87 (1.4)	2.46 (1.6)
28 day hospital re-admission: N	Pre	74.5	82.5
	Post	55	84
Presenting problem (%)	Fall	19.8 %	19.9 %
	Respiratory	11.3 %	11.6 %
	Abdominal	8.6 %	11.6 %
	General	11 %	6.9 %
	Cardiac	8 %	8.8 %
	Pain	8 %	6.5 %
	Other	33.3 %	34.6 %

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