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Table 2 Length of stay, hospital charge, and discharge destinations for the four clinical groups

From: Shorter length of hospital stay for hip fracture in those with dementia and without a known diagnosis of osteoporosis in the USA

 

Clinical Group

All

Dementia only

OP only

Both OP and Dementia

Neither OP nor Dementia

 

Median (IQR)

Median (IQR)

Median (IQR)

Median (IQR)

Median (IQR)

Length of stay (days)

6 (5–7)

6 (5–7)

6 (5–7)

6 (5–7)

6 (5–8)

Hospital charges ($1000)

45 (3166)

43 (30–68)

46 (32–66)

44 (30–64)

46 (32–66)

Hospital discharge status*

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

 Home

67 (3%)

12 (4%)

20 (2%)

11 (4%)

24 (2%)

 Inpatient Rehab

228 (10.5%)

18 (6%)

91 (11%)

20 (8%)

99 (11%)

 SNF/NH

1772 (81.5)

229 (82%)

631 (81%)

201 (81%)

711 (81%)

 Acute care

73 (3%)

12 (4%)

26 (3%)

< 10 (1%)

31 (3%)

 Died/Hospice

35 (2%)

< 10 (2%)

< 10 (0%)

11 (4%)

10 (1%)

  1. Abbreviations: IQR interquartile range, NH nursing home, OP osteoporosis, SNF specialized nursing facility
  2. *Chi-square test df = 3 (row mean scores differ), statistic = 6.8210, P = 0.0778