Characteristic | Total episodes N=3344588 | IHF episodes N=21250 | Row percentage | FRFx episodes N=3732 | Row percentage (of IHF) | |||
N | Percentage | N | Percentage | N | Percentage | |||
Emergency admission | 1751778 | 52.4 | 11397 | 53.6 | 0.7 | 1659 | 44.5 | 14.6† |
Care type | ||||||||
Acute and newborn‡ | 2913988 | 87.1 | 13787 | 64.9 | 0.50 | 1953 | 52.3 | 14.2† |
Palliative | 39931 | 1.2 | 647 | 3.0 | 1.6 | 123 | 3.3 | 19.0 |
Geriatric | 93542 | 2.8 | 3061 | 14.4 | 3.3 | 759 | 20.3 | 24.8* |
Mental and ETOH | 145752 | 4.4 | 791 | 3.7 | 0.5 | 218 | 5.8 | 27.6* |
Rehab | 127538 | 3.8 | 2181 | 10.3 | 1.7 | 528 | 14.2 | 24.2* |
Interim care§ | 9865 | 0.3 | 169 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 24 | 0.6 | 14.2 |
Interim care—nursing§ home type | 14799 | 0.4 | 614 | 2.9 | 4.2 | 127 | 3.4 | 20.7 |
Admission source | ||||||||
Home | 1451945 | 43.4 | 7741 | 36.4 | 0.5 | 996 | 26.7 | 12.9† |
Transfer | 346474 | 10.4 | 5216 | 24.1 | 1.5* | 1101 | 29.5 | 21.5* |
Other | 1546996 | 46.2 | 8383 | 39.5 | 0.5 | 1635 | 43.8 | 19.5* |
Teaching hospital | 1941541 | 58.5 | 11349 | 53.7 | 0.6† | 1769 | 47.5 | 15.6† |
Previous separation with fall¶ | 599692 | 17.9 | 6518 | 30.7 | 1.1* | 1250 | 33.5 | 19.3 |
↵* Higher prevalence of IHF or FRFx.
↵† Lower prevalence of IHF or FRFx associated with variable, assessed using uni-variate statistical analysis, p≤0.001.
↵‡ Acute and Newborn care type includes all acute hospital admissions other than those specified. For this analysis, only persons 18 years or more are included in the analysis.
↵§ There are two types of interim care; those where persons have already been designed nursing home type (35 days of continuous care, assessed by aged care assessment service) and those without such a designation.
↵¶ Either a previous presenting fall or an in-hospital fall hospital episode. EOH, alcohol related conditions.