Table 2 |
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Characteristics of patients and divided according to the size of hospital. |
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Hospitals |
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Large sized |
Middle sized |
Small sized |
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n = 1197 |
n = 824 |
n = 370 |
P-value |
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Age, mean (SD) |
66 (18) |
69 (16) |
70 (16) |
0.001 a, b, c |
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Age group |
< 0.005 a, b |
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< 70 years, % |
51.7 |
45.0 |
39.9 |
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≥ 70 years, % |
48.3 |
55.0 |
60.1 |
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Gender, % |
0.580 |
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Men |
49.5 |
48.0 |
46.5 |
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Women |
50.5 |
52.0 |
53.5 |
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Distribution of patients within some specialities, % |
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Medicine |
36.9 |
41.0 |
33.2 |
0.092 |
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Surgery |
16.8 |
17.0 |
10.5 |
0.022 b, c |
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Orthopaedics |
8.6 |
11.1 |
13.8 |
0.018 d |
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Psychiatry |
5.3 |
2.6 |
8.9 |
0.001 a, b, c |
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Distribution of patients according to some diagnosis categories, % |
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Pulmonary |
6.1 |
11.6 |
9.8 |
< 0.0005 a, b |
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Cardiovascular |
19.0 |
22.4 |
30.6 |
< 0.0005 b, c |
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Infectious |
9.9 |
7.3 |
4.0 |
0.003 b, c |
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Gastrointestinal |
13.4 |
20.3 |
3.4 |
< 0.0005 a, b, c |
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Neurological |
4.3 |
5.2 |
2.4 |
0.139 |
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Orthopaedic |
10.8 |
7.8 |
29.0 |
< 0.0005 a, b, c |
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Psychiatric |
6.1 |
3.1 |
11.1 |
< 0.0005 a, b, c |
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Oncological |
28.5 |
24.2 |
7.3 |
< 0.0005 b, c |
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Missing values in < 5%. ANOVA, Chi-square test a first group differs compared to second b first group differs compared to third c second group differs compared to third group d not significant in post hoc analysis |
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Westergren et al. Nutrition Journal 2009 8:20 doi:10.1186/1475-2891-8-20 |
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