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Table 2 NT public hospital inpatient characteristics (persons and episodes), by Aboriginal status and frequent use duration, 2005–2013

From: Frequent use of hospital inpatient services during a nine year period: a retrospective cohort study

 

Aboriginal patients

Non-Aboriginal patients

occasional

1 FU yr

2+ FU yrs

occasional

1 FU yr

2+ FU yrs

Personsa

Total number

25 379

4 644

2 400

65 650

5 814

1 484

 Female (%)

56.4

65.4

63.7

52.5

55.6

41.0

 Median age (years)b

30

33

36

38

45

55

 Rural/remote residencec (%)

69.6

68.3

65.6

18.9

16.5

14.8

 Alcohol-related flag (%)

18.5

36.8

61.9

3.9

9.8

18.8

 Mental health flag (%)

6.4

13.8

33.2

3.7

9.3

18.5

 Pregnancy-related flag (%)

25.3

33.5

23.6

21.1

30.6

14.4

Frequent use (FU) years

 Number of FU years

 

4 644

7 207

 

5 814

3 835

 Mean FU years per person

1

3.0

 

1

2.6

 (95% C.I.)

 

(2.9, 3.1)

  

(2.5, 2.6)

 Number of episodes in FU years

23 853

45 521

 

33 171

26 426

 Mean episodes per FU year

 

5.1

6.3

 

5.7

6.9

 (95% C.I.)

 

(5.1, 5.2)

(6.2, 6.4)

 

(5.6, 5.8)

(6.7, 7.1)

 Number of inpatient days in FU years

116 499

209 397

 

138 230

115 161

 Mean LOS (days) per episode

 

4.88

4.60

 

4.17

4.36

Episodesd

Total number

67 358

38 096

54 042

124 211

44 342

30 611

 Female (%)

61.7

65.5

60.3

54.4

53.1

40.1

 Rural/remote residencec (%)

70.1

67.7

61.8

18.5

16.0

13.4

 Alcohol-related condition (%)

10.5

11.8

18.0

2.5

3.0

3.6

 Mental health condition (%)

3.7

4.1

6.4

2.7

3.3

4.9

 Pregnancy-related condition (%)

20.5

18.2

6.7

18.9

17.3

5.8

  1. anumber of persons
  2. bBased on age at first episode
  3. cBased on residence at first episode - excludes records with unknown residence as noted in Table 1
  4. dnumber of inpatient episodes