Table 3 Patient characteristics stratified by emergency department (KOL and EV) and group (decline to participate telephone contact, participants)
From: Recruiting patients for falls prevention in the emergency department – worth the challenge
KOL | EV | Statistics (between EDs) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Individuals addressed, n (declined/recruited) | 271 (130/141) | 230 (86/144) | 0.017 | |||||||
Total | Declined | Recruited | Statistics | Total | Declined | Recruited | Statistics | |||
Age, years (mean ± SD) | 78.1 ± 9.2 | 79.7 ± 9.3 | 76.7 ± 8.9 | 0.015 | 75.8 ± 9.4 | 76.5 ± 9.9 | 75.3 ± 9.0 | 0.339 | 0.008 | |
Sex, n (male/female) | 99/172 | 49/81 | 50/91 | 0.703 | 73/157 | 27/59 | 46/98 | 0.931 | 0.151 | |
Place of birth, n (Germany/Other (missing)) | 137/16 (118) | 56/10 (64) | 81/6 (54) | 0.098 | 116/14 (100) | 42/4 (40) | 74/10 (60) | 0.572 | 0.542 | |
Level of care, n (No/Yes (missing)) | 145/84 (42) | 54/49 (27) | 91/35 (15) | 0.002 | 106/49 (75) | 31/25 (30) | 75/24 (45) | 0.009 | 0.306 | |
Living status, n (independent/ care home (missing)) | 209/24 (38) | 89/20 (21) | 120/4 (17) | 0.001 | 144/13 (73) | 53/8 (25) | 91/5 (48) | 0.080 | 0.504 | |
Presentation to ED, n (self-presentation/ ambulance (missing)) | 113/154 (4) | 40/86 (4) | 73/68 (0) | 0.001 | 134/92 (4) | 43/40 (3) | 91/52 (1) | 0.093 | 0.001 | |
Education | Low | 127 | 65 | 62 | 0.068 | 58 | 21 | 37 | 0.499 | 0.260 |
Middle | 47 | 19 | 28 | 33 | 8 | 25 | ||||
High | 36 | 11 | 25 | 16 | 5 | 11 | ||||
Missing | 61 | 35 | 26 | 123 | 52 | 71 | ||||