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Table 2 The proportion of comorbidity and complication category by age, gender, and presence of surgical procedure (%)

From: The association of the number of comorbidities and complications with length of stay, hospital mortality and LOS high outlier, based on administrative data

Category

Absent (%)

One or two (%)

Three or four (%)

Five or more (%)

N

Overall*

50.5

32.4

13.4

3.7

241,268

 

Medical

47.8

33.8

14.9

3.5

123,895

 

Surgical

53.4

30.9

11.8

3.9

117,373

Age*

 Under 15 years

 

65.5

25.9

6.5

2.1

25,969

 

Medical

60.4

29.0

8.2

2.4

15,282

 

Surgical

72.8

21.5

4.1

1.6

10,687

 15-64 years

 

53.9

31.6

11.5

3.0

126,982

 

Medical

51.1

33.2

12.8

2.9

64,097

 

Surgical

56.8

30.0

10.1

3.0

62,885

 65 years or more

 

41.2

35.4

18.2

5.2

88,317

 

Medical

38.6

36.4

20.2

4.8

44,516

 

Surgical

43.8

34.5

16.1

5.7

43,801

Gender*

 Female

 

52.3

31.9

12.4

3.4

112,243

 

Medical

48.5

33.9

14.2

3.4

56,229

 

Surgical

56.1

29.9

10.6

3.4

56,014

 Male

 

48.9

32.8

14.3

4.0

129,025

 

Medical

47.1

33.8

15.5

3.6

67,666

 

Surgical

51.0

31.8

12.9

4.3

61,359

Number of procedures*

 

1

59.3

27.9

10.0

2.8

78,456

 

2

46.1

35.1

13.7

5.1

25,108

 

3

31.1

44.0

17.7

7.2

7,354

 

4

41.7

34.3

17.2

6.7

4,698

 

5

19.9

39.8

25.4

14.9

1,757

  1. * Statistically significance at P < 0.001