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Table 3 Patient management statistics for Lyme disease coded patients in Hospital Episode Statistics (1998–2015)

From: Characteristics and patient pathways of Lyme disease patients: a retrospective analysis of hospital episode data in England and Wales (1998–2015)

 

Admitted Patient Care (APC)

Outpatients

Accident and Emergency (A&E)

ICD-10 Codes

 Lyme disease

91.5% (n = 1891)

27.8% (n = 55)

100% (n = 16)

 Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans

8.0% (n = 166)

71.4% (n = 142)

0

 Lyme Arthritis

0.1% (n = 2)

0.5% (n = 1)

0

 Lyme and LA

0.3% (n = 7)

0

0

Number of Departments of Treatment Recorded

63 (2065 patients)

20 (198 Patients)

N/A

Top 5 Departments of Treatment

General medicine

28.9%

Dermatology

70.7%

N/A

Paediatrics

14.7%

Rheumatology

5.6%

Neurology

10.8%

Neurology

5.1%

Gynaecology

4.8%

Infectious disease

4.0%

Infectious disease

4.5%

General medicine

3.0%

Mean number of episodes per patient

1.72 episodes (range: 1–50)

N/A

N/A

Mean number of bed days with patients with one episode

(n = 1638, 79.3% of APC patients)

4.47 days (range: 0–137)

733 (35.5%) with one episode and no bed days.

258 (12.5%) with one episode and one bed day.

N/A

N/A

Mean number of total bed days for patients with more than one episode (n = 427, 20.7% of APC patients)

11.2 days (range: 0–315)

N/A

N/A

Mean number of outpatient appointments (n = 308, 24 cancelled)

N/A

1.5 (range: 1–25)

NA

Mean time in A&E (minutes)

N/A

N/A

140 (32–237)