Discharge against Medical Advice (DAMA) from an Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital in Saudi Arabia

Table 3

Relationship of discharge against medical advice (DAMA) with demographic factors and triage.

Variables	Discharge against medical advice (DAMA)		value
	Yes (n = 59)	No (n = 5939)
Age in years (mean ± SD)	37.53 (13.178)	34.74 (12.13)	0.08
Age			0.05
≤40 years	37 (62.7%)	4384 (73.8%)
>40 years	22 (37.3%)	1555 (26.2%)
Gender			0.60
Female	45.0 (76.3%)	4349 (73.2%)
Male	14.0 (23.7%)	1590 (26.8%)
Triage			<0.001
Emergent	1 (1.8%)	31.0 (0.5%)
Urgent	28 (49.1%)	1398 (24.6%)
Less urgent	26 (45.6%)	3445 (60.7%)
Nonurgent	2 (3.5%)	790 (13.9%)
Non-ER patient	0 (0.0%)	12 (0.2%)

Significant at value ≤ 0.05 by using independent test/chi-square test/Fisher’s exact test.