Table 2 Descriptive statistics of patient and hospital characteristics (2007)
Liver | Kidney | Oesophagus | Pancreas | Stem cell | Knee | CABG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Patient level | |||||||
Number of patients | 1064 | 2885 | 3190 | 8854 | 5687 | 132,195 | 27,644 |
Mortality rate (%) | 18.6% | 1.8% | 11.8% | 10.1% | 5.9% | 0.1% | 3.2% |
Age (mean) | 48.1 | 49.7 | 62.8 | 62.1 | 48.4 | 69.7 | 66.4 |
Male (%) | 63.3% | 62.3% | 75.9% | 57.5% | 62.4% | 32.3% | 78.3% |
Admission reason (%) | |||||||
Scheduled | 32.6% | 34.6% | 80.9% | 68.9% | 80.2% | 95.2% | 63.2% |
Emergency | 52.7% | 60.3% | 13.6% | 23.3% | 14.1% | 4.5% | 9.3% |
Transfer | 14.7% | 5.0% | 5.5% | 7.8% | 5.7% | 0.3% | 27.5% |
Weekend/holiday admission (%) | 22.4% | 24.1% | 9.3% | 12.1% | 5.0% | 17.5% | 7.7% |
Charlson comorbidity index (%) | |||||||
0 | 8.6% | 18.7% | 17.9% | 27.1% | 47.0% | 65.2% | 31.7% |
1–2 | 22.7% | 47.9% | 35.0% | 34.3% | 28.4% | 30.4% | 46.8% |
3–4 | 40.0% | 26.3% | 20.5% | 16.2% | 9.4% | 3.7% | 16.4% |
> =5 | 28.7% | 7.1% | 26.6% | 22.5% | 15.2% | 0.6% | 5.1% |
Hospital level | |||||||
Number of hospitals | 22 | 42 | 415 | 680 | 100 | 999 | 98 |
Case volume (mean) | 50.8 | 69.1 | 8.0 | 13.4 | 57.4 | 134.2 | 393.5 |
Ownership (%) | |||||||
Public | 100.0% | 95.2% | 46.3% | 45.0% | 68.0% | 42.2% | 55.1% |
Private non-profit | 0.0% | 2.4% | 41.4% | 42.2% | 16.0% | 40.0% | 18.4% |
Private for-profit | 0.0% | 2.4% | 12.3% | 12.8% | 16.0% | 17.7% | 26.5% |
University hospital (%) | 95.5% | 78.6% | 9.2% | 5.4% | 35.0% | 3.6% | 34.7% |