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Table 2 Baseline characteristics for the final study population of nursing home and hospital wards

From: The impact of a national quality register in the analysis of risks and adverse events among older adults in nursing homes and hospital wards—a Swedish Senior Alert survey

 

Nursing homes

(n = 40,224)

Hospital wards

(n = 10,112)

p value

 

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

 

Age (years)

85.4

7.5

79.8

8.3

< 0.001a

BMI (kg/m2)

25.0

5.1

25.5

5.2

< 0.001a

Days to follow-up

123

76

7

8

< 0.001c

 

n

%

n

%

 

Females

27,349

68

5640

56

< 0.001b

Married

9798

24

4103

41

< 0.001b

Fall risk

32,445

79

5421

54

< 0.001b

Malnutrition risk

23,994

60

6621

65

< 0.001b

Pressure ulcer risk

12,275

31

1741

17

< 0.001b

Poor oral health risk

16,500

41

2837

28

< 0.001b

Has any risk

37,011

92

8289

82

< 0.001b

  1. Data are shown as mean (SD) or number (%)
  2. aStudent’s t test
  3. bPearson’s chi-square test
  4. cWelch two sample t test
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