Table 1 Demographic characteristics of elderly patients: initial transferred patients, not re-transferred patients and short-term re-transferred patients
From: Elderly patients re-transferred from long-term care hospitals to emergency departments within 48 h
Characteristics | Initial transferred patients | Not re-transferred patients | Short-term re-transferred patients | P1 value | P2 value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cases | (%) | Cases | (%) | Cases | (%) | |||
Total | 140,282 | 37,501 | 679 | |||||
Sex | 0.067 | < 0.001 | ||||||
Male | 58,781 | (41.9) | 15,517 | (41.4) | 361 | (53.2) | ||
Female | 81,501 | (58.1) | 21,984 | (58.6) | 318 | (46.8) | ||
Age groups | 0.303 | < 0.001 | ||||||
65–74 | 30,518 | (21.8) | 8,042 | (21.4) | 197 | (29.0) | ||
75–84 | 71,328 | (50.8) | 19,221 | (51.3) | 280 | (41.2) | ||
≥ 85 | 38,436 | (27.4) | 10,238 | (27.3) | 202 | (29.7) | ||
Region | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | ||||||
Metropolitan | 68,984 | (49.2) | 19,339 | (51.6) | 387 | (57.0) | ||
Urban | 71,298 | (50.8) | 18,162 | (48.4) | 292 | (43.0) | ||
Korean triage and acuity scale | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | ||||||
Level 1,2 | 31,033 | (22.1) | 8,442 | (22.5) | 119 | (17.5) | ||
Level 3 | 76,686 | (54.7) | 22,724 | (60.6) | 223 | (32.8) | ||
Level 4,5 | 32,540 | (23.2) | 6,329 | (16.9) | 161 | (23.7) | ||
Admission time | 0.002 | < 0.001 | ||||||
Weekdays (8 to 18) | 86,540 | (61.7) | 23,462 | (62.6) | 353 | (52.0) | ||
Weekdays (18 to 8) | 22,737 | (16.2) | 6,092 | (16.2) | 159 | (23.4) | ||
Holydays (8 to 18) | 20,725 | (14.8) | 5,321 | (14.2) | 110 | (16.2) | ||
Holydays (18 to 8) | 10,280 | (7.3) | 2,626 | (7.0) | 57 | (8.4) | ||
ED results | - | < 0.001 | ||||||
Discharge | 36,285 | (25.9) | 75 | (11.0) | ||||
Transfer hospital | 4,218 | (3.0) | 35 | (5.2) | ||||
Transfer LTCH | 38,180 | (27.2) | 37,501 | (100.0) | 75 | (11.0) | ||
Admission | 59,066 | (42.1) | 484 | (71.3) | ||||
Death | 2,533 | (1.8) | 10 | (1.5) | ||||
ED LOS (mean, std; (Hr)) | 9.1 ± 13.0 | 9.7 ± 13.3 | 5.6 ± 9.9 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |||