Characteristic | prolonged length of stay | Overall (n = 2889)a | p valueb | |||
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Less than 1.8 days (n = 1772) a | Greater than or equal to 1.8 days (n = 1117)a | |||||
Hospital site | P (Paediatric led A&E) | 34 | 31 | 61.3 | 0.089 | |
A (Adult physician led A&E) | 66 | 69 | ||||
Demographic | Gender | Male | 56.4 | 55.2 | 55.9 | 0.584 |
Female | 43.6 | 44.8 | ||||
Age (years) | mean, SD | 4.2 ± 4.4 | 3.4 ± 4.4 | 3.9 ± 4.4 | <0.001 | |
Age group (years) | 1 and Under | 35.4 | 48 | 40.3 | <0.001 | |
2 to 5 | 36.9 | 30.1 | 34.3 | |||
6 to 10 | 14.2 | 11.3 | 13.1 | |||
11 to 16 | 13.5 | 10.7 | 12.4 | |||
Ethnic Group | White | 32.3 | 32.2 | 32.3 | 0.706 | |
Mixed White | 23.3 | 23.8 | 23.5 | |||
Asian | 30.5 | 3.3 | 30.4 | |||
Black | 7 | 7.9 | 7.3 | |||
Other/unspecified | 6.9 | 5.8 | 6.5 | |||
Distance (Km)a | Mean | 6.5 ± 24.8 | 6.1 ± 20.3 | 6.3 ± 23.2 | 0.107 | |
Distance (quartiles)a | 1st (closest) | 23.5 | 27.2 | 24.9 | 0.135 | |
2nd | 25.8 | 24 | 25.1 | |||
3rd | 25 | 25.1 | 25 | |||
4th (furthest) | 25.8 | 23.8 | 25 | |||
IDACI | Mean | 0.3 ± 0.14 | 0.43 ± 0.17 | 0.34 ± 0.17 | 0.685 | |
Median | 0.31 | 0.32 | 0.32 | |||
IDACI (quartiles)c | 1st (least deprived) | 25.3 | 24.3 | 24.9 | <0.001 | |
2nd | 25.1 | 24.8 | 25 | |||
3rd | 23.3 | 27.6 | 24.9 | |||
4th (most deprived) | 26.3 | 23.3 | 25.1 | |||
Clinical | Specialty | Medical | 82.1 | 93 | 86.3 | <0.001 |
Surgical | 18 | 6.9 | 13.7 | |||
Diagnosis | allergy | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | <0.001 | |
cardiac | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.5 | |||
endocrine | 1.2 | 1.9 | 2.6 | |||
gastro | 12.7 | 12.5 | 12.6 | |||
haemoncology | 4.8 | 5.7 | 5.2 | |||
infection | 20.2 | 23.8 | 21.6 | |||
MSK | 1.8 | 1.2 | 1.6 | |||
neurology | 7.6 | 6.5 | 7.1 | |||
other | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.3 | |||
psychosocial | 1.9 | 9 | 1.5 | |||
respiratory | 19.6 | 24.5 | 21.5 | |||
surgical GIT | 6.2 | 2.9 | 1.5 | |||
trauma | 16.5 | 6.2 | 12.5 | |||
urogenital | 3.8 | 5.4 | 4.4 | |||
Maxfax/Dental/ENT | 3.9 | 1.8 | 3.1 | |||
congenital | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |||
Dermatology | 1.7 | 2.7 | 2.1 | |||
Number of admissions in the year | 1 | 68.2 | 64.2 | 66.6 | 0.038 | |
2 | 17.7 | 18.1 | 17.8 | |||
3 | 5.3 | 7.4 | 6.1 | |||
4 or more | 8.9 | 10.3 | 9.5 | |||
Readmission within 28 days | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 0.941 | ||
Process | Time of admission | 9.00 to 16.59 | 33.5 | 36.4 | 34.6 | <0.001 |
17.00 to 21.59 | 24 | 34.4 | 28 | |||
22.00 to 08.59 | 42.6 | 29.2 | 37.4 | |||
Day of admission | weekday | 85.9 | 87.4 | 86.5 | 0.256 | |
weekend | 14.1 | 12.6 | 13.5 | |||
Season of admission | spring | 26.4 | 28.6 | 27.2 | 0.58 | |
summer | 24.6 | 22.6 | 23.8 | |||
autumn | 24.7 | 26.1 | 25.2 | |||
winter | 24.4 | 22.7 | 23.8 | |||
Source of admission | elective | 11 | 2.4 | 7.7 | <0.001 | |
emergency via A&E | 75.6 | 85.1 | 79.2 | |||
emergency via other | 12.3 | 9 | 11 | |||
other | 11.9 | 3.6 | 2.1 |