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Table 5 Sequence analysis - patient and admission attributes by visit

From: Which young people in England are most at risk of an alcohol-related revolving-door readmission career?

 

Stay characteristics of all those at index admission (n = 7286)

Stay characteristics of all those at first readmission (n = 677a)

Stay characteristics of all those at second readmission (n = 176)

Stay characteristics of all those at third readmission (n = 60)

Stay characteristics of all those at fourth readmission (n = 31)

Stay characteristics of all those at fifth readmission (n = 16)

Average length of stay (in days)

0.739

1.354

2.017

2.783

3.451

2.187

Died this admission (number of people)b

NA

0

1

0

0

0

Admission took place on a traditional drinking day?

70.3%

57.9%

48.9%

46.7%

41.9%

25.0%

Average number of days since discharge from last alcohol-related admission

NA

503.8

297.2

239.1

199.1

142.4

  1. a Note that the numbers included each column are not the same as those given in Table Three, because the figures here are cumulative – Table Two notes that 501 people had a first readmission and never came back, but here the total of 677 includes both these people, and also the people who went onto have additional readmissions later
  2. b The “discharge” codes in HES are limited in that they do not capture deaths occurring post discharge from hospital. This can cause incompleteness or bias in some comparative analyses