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Table 2 Hospital admission characteristics and length of stay. Cancer of Unknown Primary diagnosed during hospital admission, 1998–2011, West of Scotland, N = 5397. p for Pearson’s chi-square test

From: Cancers of unknown primary diagnosed during hospitalization: a population-based study

 

1998–2002

2003–2007

2008–2011

Total

p

 

N

Col %

N

Col %

N

Col %

N

Col %

 

Total

2212

(100)

1939

(100)

1246

(100)

5397

(100)

 

Type of admission

 Elective

299

(13.5)

201

(10.4)

117

(9.4)

617

(11.4)

 

 Emergency

1913

(86.5)

1738

(89.6)

1129

(90.6)

4780

(88.6)

<0.001

Specialty of admission

 Geriatric medicine

258

(11.7)

222

(11.4)

124

(10)

604

(11.2)

 

 Medicine

1203

(54.4)

1083

(55.9)

751

(60.3)

3037

(56.3)

 

 Surgery

685

(31.0)

588

(30.3)

329

(26.4)

1602

(29.7)

 

 Other

66

(3.0)

46

(2.4)

42

(3.4)

154

(2.9)

0.013

days in hospital

 1–7 days

500

(22.0)

450

(22.7)

340

(26.4)

1290

(23.3)

 

 8–14 days

548

(24.1)

429

(21.6)

284

(22)

1261

(22.7)

 

 15–30 days

701

(30.9)

618

(31.1)

362

(28.1)

1681

(30.3)

 

 31+ days

463

(20.4)

442

(22.3)

260

(20.2)

1165

(21.0)

0.016

  1. N number of patients, Col % column percentage