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Table 7 Clinical units and inputs (first part: patient characteristics and nature of hospitalization)

From: Neural networks and hospital length of stay: an application to support healthcare management with national benchmarks and thresholds

Clinical unit

Age (mean value)

Presence of cancer (%)

Sex (% male)

Transfers (mean value)a

Urgent hospitalization (direct) (%)

Urgent hospitalization (from ER) (%)

Planned hospitalization (%)

Cardiology

70

1.14

65.69

0.20

4.0

24.7

71.4

Hematology

58

91.26

50.00

0.04

45.1

15.0

39.9

Geriatrics

86

6.20

39.80

0.04

1.8

96.6

1.6

Infectious diseases

58

7.13

63.31

0.04

32.1

58.5

9.4

Internal medicine

77

10.23

50.26

0.09

2.4

93.6

4.1

Emergency medicine

73

5.00

55.59

0.16

3.4

96.2

0.4

Nephrology

67

7.46

49.75

0.11

28.9

63.2

8.0

Neurology

71

8.35

54.24

0.09

12.4

86.0

1.6

Coronary care

69

1.81

69.42

0.96

48.7

51.1

0.2

Gastroenterology

68

14.97

48.73

0.08

3.8

82.5

13.7

Oncology

67

94.98

56.43

0.08

18.5

42.0

39.6

Respiratory diseases

74

20.17

61.34

0.06

21.3

62.4

16.3

Rheumatology

63

0.00

18.18

0.00

18.2

31.8

50.0

Total (DIEM)

72

15.73

55.55

0.15

12.8

69.0

18.2

  1. aNumber of transfers every 100 hospitalizations