From: Frequent use of hospital inpatient services during a nine year period: a retrospective cohort study
Aboriginal patients | Non-Aboriginal patients | |||||
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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 |