Table 3 Characteristics of different categories of ED users
Variabile | Adult patients (15+) | Paediatric patients (0–14) | Older patients (65+) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Non FU | One Shot | Multi sem | Non FU | One Shot | Multi sem | Non FU | One Shot | Multi sem | |
% Patients | 90.0 | 8.5 | 1.5 | 91.6 | 7.3 | 1.1 | 88.2 | 10.1 | 1.7 |
% Accesses | 70.8 | 20.0 | 9.1 | 76.2 | 17.9 | 6.0 | 68.4 | 22.4 | 9.1 |
Average accesses | 1.7 | 5.2 | 13.5 | 1.8 | 5.4 | 11.6 | 1.8 | 5.2 | 12.6 |
% Male | 49.0 | 47.8 | 47.2 | 54.7 | 56.6 | 56.4 | 42.4 | 47.2 | 50.4 |
% Foreign | 12.0 | 12.5 | 12.8 | 11.5 | 13.8 | 16.7 | 2.3 | 1.1 | 1.0 |
Average age | 53.0 | 55.4 | 54.2 | 5.9 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 77.3 | 78.6 | 77.9 |
% Multiple chronic conditions | 2.5 | 18.2 | 49.3 | 0.3 | 2.5 | 11.0 | 4.5 | 26.7 | 61.1 |
% Mental disorders | 3.2 | 10.6 | 29.2 | 0.8 | 2.5 | 7.1 | 2.2 | 7.7 | 18.7 |
% Nervous system and sense organs | 1.9 | 5.1 | 9.3 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 5.4 | 2.5 | 5.9 | 10.2 |
% Circulatory system | 7.1 | 17.8 | 28.8 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 15.5 | 33.5 | 52.5 |
% Respiratory system | 1.0 | 3.8 | 9.8 | 1.1 | 4.2 | 10.2 | 1.8 | 6.6 | 15.8 |
% Digestive system | 0.7 | 2.3 | 6.0 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 2.7 | 6.1 |
% Genitourinary system | 1.0 | 3.4 | 7.7 | 0.9 | 2.2 | 5.2 | 0.8 | 2.8 | 6.0 |
% Musculoskeletal system | 1.2 | 3.2 | 7.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2.6 | 1.6 | 3.8 | 8.5 |
% Congenital anomalies | 10.3 | 25.6 | 46.1 | 4.0 | 9.2 | 16.6 | 11.7 | 28.6 | 14.1 |
Number of patients | 958,712 | 173,351 | 328,901 | ||||||
Number of accesses | 2,129,074 | 382,951 | 765,971 | ||||||