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Table 2 Demographic and admission data of the study and source population

From: Prevalence and associated factors of viral hepatitis and transferrin elevations in 5036 patients admitted to the emergency room of a Swiss university hospital: cross-sectional study

  

Study population

All ER admissions 1

Variable

Strata

n

%

n

%

All patients

 

5'036

100

33'703

100

Sex

Male

3'018

59.9

19'397

57.6

 

Female

2'018

40.1

14'299

42.4

 

Unknown

-

-

7

0.02

Age (years)

< 20

199

4.0

2'380

7.0

 

20–39

1'890

37.5

12'936

38.4

 

40–59

1'610

32.0

9'460

28.1

 

≥ 60

1'337

26.5

8'927

26.5

Admission specialty

Surgery

2'632

52.3

19'730

58.5

 

Medicine

2'336

46.4

13'973

41.5

 

Unknown

68

1.3

-2

-

Admission season

Nov-Apr

1'693

33.6

14'344

42.6

 

May-Oct

3'343

66.4

19'359

57.4

Admission time

Day (7 am – 7 pm)

4'112

81.7

22'917

68.0

 

Night (7 pm – 7 am)

856

17.0

10'786

32.0

 

Unknown

68

1.3

-2

-

Country of residence

Switzerland

4'934

98.0

32'853

97.5

 

Other

102

2.0

850

2.5

Health insurance

Basic

3'964

78.7

27'595

81.9

 

Semi-private

685

13.6

3'650

10.8

 

Private

165

3.3

970

2.9

 

Unknown

222

4.4

1'488

4.4

  1. 1All admissions to the emergency room of the University Hospital Berne between 26 February 2003 and 20 September 2004 (data obtained via the hospital's electronic patient data system)
  2. 2There were 68 patients who entered the ER and were included in the study, but where the hospital's data system did not have an entry and therefore no information on specialty and time of admission. These are not included in the numbers provided for all admissions.