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Table 1 Baseline characteristics

From: Care trajectories of chronically ill older adult patients discharged from hospital: a quantitative cross-sectional study using health insurance claims data

 

Older adult with any admission in 2015 (N = 21,258)

Older adult admitted with hip fracture (N = 814)

Measure

N (%)

Mean (SD)

Median [Range]

N

Mean (SD)

median

Age

21,258

83.8 (5.6)

83 [75–104]

814

86.7 (5.5)*** c

87 [75–101]

Male

8066 (37.9)

  

200 (24.6)***

  

SES

21,258

−0.4 (1.2)

−0.2 [−5.7–2.8]

811

−0.3 (1.2) d

− 0.1 [− 5.7–2.6]

Mortality during admission

505 (2.4)

  

23 (2.8)

  

Total 2015 spending, €

21,258

24,793 (20,506)

19,045 [705–468,772]

814

30,283 (18,354)***d

27,054 [1424-177,666]

Marital status

 Married

6216 (29.2)

  

160 (19.7)

  

 Divorced/never been married

2616 (12.3)

  

101 (12.4)

  

 Widow (er)

6031 (28.4)

  

292 (35.9)

  

 Unknown

6395 (30.1)

  

261 (32.1)

  

Number of morbiditiesa

21,258

3.8 (1.5)

4 [2–11]

814

3.3 (1.3) ***d

3 [2–8]

 Hypertension

18,721 (88.1)

  

678 (83.3)***

  

 Heart conditions

13,266 (62.4)

  

466 (57.3)*

  

 High cholesterol levels

11,653 (54.8)

  

368 (45.2)***

  

 Asthma

6420 (30.2)

  

175 (21.5)***

  

 Chronic painb

5639 (26.5)

  

215 (26.4)

  

 Diabetes Type 2

5638 (26.5)

  

190 (23.3)*

  

 COPD/heavy asthma

4846 (22.8)

  

124 (15.2)***

  

 Depression

4206 (19.8)

  

178 (21.9)

  

 Psychosis/alzheimers/addiction

3396 (16.0)

  

185 (22.7)***

  

 Diabetes Type 1

3224 (15.2)

  

72 (8.9)***

  
  1. All group differences were tested with a Chi-square test unless specified otherwise. aBased on pharmaceutical cost groups. Only the top ten comorbidities are displayed, b Excluding opiods, c T-Test, d Non-parametric T-test (Mann-Whitney U Test). Differences are significant at the significance levels .001 (***), .01(**), and .05 (*)