Demographic Changes and Their Implications in a Nonacademic Emergency Department in Switzerland: An 11-Year Trend Analysis (2000–2010) of 104,510 Patients
Table 2
Change in triage over time (2000–2010).
Age
All
Patients <65 years
Patients ≥65 years
Year
Case number development (n = 104,510)
Surgery outpatient % (number of cases)
Internal medicine outpatient % (number of cases)
Inpatient % (number of cases)
Surgery outpatient % (number of cases)
Internal medicine outpatient % (number of cases)
Inpatient % (number of cases)
2000
6907
31.5 (2168)
11.4 (786)
31.5 (2168)
3.6 (251)
2.1 (147)
19.9 (1368)
2001
7381
31.0 (2287)
13.5 (998)
30.3 (2235)
4.2 (311)
2.5 (185)
18.4 (1356)
2002
7399
30.1 (2219)
13.7 (1014)
31.5 (2324)
3.8 (284)
1.7 (122)
19.2 (1418)
2003
8052
29.3 (2354)
13.9 (1115)
30.7 (2468)
4.2 (338)
1.9 (156)
20.0 (1605)
2004
8083
27.3 (2197)
12.6 (1013)
33.4 (2692)
3.8 (306)
2.0 (161)
21.0 (1692)
2005
9001
29.0 (2607)
12.8 (1154)
31.1 (2794)
3.9 (349)
2.2 (196)
21.0 (1884)
2006*
10385
27.3 (2828)
11.7 (1214)
31.7 (3286)
3.8 (396)
1.9 (202)
23.5 (2440)
2007
1148
27.0 (3010)
13.4 (1495)
29.3 (3259)
4.0 (447)
2.7 (306)
23.5 (2613)
2008
11877
27.9 (3302)
14.6 (1727)
28.4 (3364)
4.1 (490)
2.8 (329)
22.3 (2643)
2009
11933
27.5 (3271)
14.3 (1698)
28.5 (3392)
4.5 (533)
2.6 (314)
22.7 (2706)
2010
12344
28.3 (3484)
13.9 (1710)
26.7 (3292)
4.5 (559)
2.3 (281)
24.3 (2998)
<0.01
<0.01
0.14
0.01
0.04
0.11
<0.01
*By January 1, 2006 the emergency unit of the second hospital in Chur, Switzerland was closed.
