Results of a 2-Week Inpatient Stay at the Department for Internal and Integrative Medicine: An Observational Study
Table 1
Sociodemographic and clinical data of patients at admission.
All patients
Female
Male
Complete sample size
2486
1994
492
Age (M ± SD; range)
53.9 ± 14.3; 16–91
53.87 ± 14.3
54.8 ± 14.5
0.77
Family status (% in relationship/married)
58.1
54.9
71.2
<0.001
Education (% with A-level and higher)
26.3
24.0
35.8
<0.001
Number of doctors consultations within the past 4 weeks (M ± SD; range)
3.9 ± 3.4; 0–25
3.8 ± 3.2
4.2 ± 3.9
0.06
Days of sick leave in the past 12 months (M ± SD; range)
25.9 ± 56.3; 0–365
23.6 ± 49.2
33.3 ± 74.7
0.03
Days admitted to hospitals within the past year (M ± SD; range)
21.4 ± 19.3; 2–70
21.2 ± 20.0
22.2 ± 19.1
0.53
Length of stay at the hospital in days (M ± SD; range)
14.6 ± 3.6; 4–54
14.7 ± 3.6
14.1 ± 3.4
0.001
Expectancy of improvement (%)
(i) Very much
44.8
48.2
31.7
<0.001
(ii) Somewhat
37.4
35.5
45.0
(iii) Unsure
16.6
15.3
21.7
(iv) Not so much
1.0
0.7
1.9
(v) Not at all
0.3
0.4
0.0
Major admission diagnosis (%)
(i) Arthritis
6.7
7.2
4.7
(ii) Fibromyalgia
10.8
13.0
2.0
(iii) Headache
11.3
12.1
7.7
(iv) Hypertension
3.4
2.7
6.3
(v) IBD (Crohn, Colitis)
4.9
3.9
9.3
(vi) IBS
3.0
3.3
1.6
(vii) Ischemic cardiac disease
1.2
0.5
4.1
(viii) Lung diseases
5.5
5.7
4.5
(ix) Osteoarthritis
9.9
10.5
7.3
(x) Spinal Pain
18.8
18.2
21.5
(xi) Pain, others
10.9
10.5
12.4
(xii) Others
13.7
12.5
18.5
Physician rated severity of disease (%)
Very severe
6.5
6.8
5.3
Severe
49.3
52.4
36.7
Moderate
39.1
37.2
46.8
Slight
4.2
3.1
8.7
Minor
0.9
0.5
2.5
M: mean; SD: standard deviation. For several variables, data were inconclusive. For work absenteeism, only scores from patients with full-time or part-time employment were entered.
