Weekend admissions may be associated with poorer recording of long-term comorbidities: a prospective study of emergency admissions using administrative data

Table 4 Descriptive statistics for each disease cohort

Condition	Number of patients^a	Male (% of patients)	Age in years: median (interquartile range)	Died within 30 days (% of patients)
Chronic pulmonary disease	111,457	43.2	73 (57–82)	6.5
Diabetes	106,433	50.5	75 (63–82)	6.0
Congestive heart failure	36,447	49.2	81 (73–87)	10.1
Dementia	30,996	35.5	85 (80–90)	10.9
Hemiplegia/paraplegia	7808	54.7	72 (59–81)	6.4
Metastatic cancer	5877	49.3	69 (60–77)	13.3

^aPatients with at least two emergency admissions with the relevant condition recorded between 2009 and 2011 and a further admission in 2011–2013 where the relevant condition was not the primary diagnosis

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