Big Data-Enabled Analysis of Factors Affecting Patient Waiting Time in the Nephrology Department of a Large Tertiary Hospital

Table 2

Comparison of the waiting time of hospitalized patients with different characteristics.

Variable	Cases	Waiting time
Age			2.365	0.069
Juvenile (0–17 years old)	341	5.08
Youth (18–40 years old)	4 342	5.39
Middle age (41–65 years old)	6 234	5.70
Old age (over 66 years old)	2 419	4.29
Gender			4.705	0.030
Male	7 106	5.72
Female	6 230	4.88
WIAC			5.648	<0.01
Monday	3 161	4.24
Tuesday	2 443	4.42
Wednesday	2 785	6.21
Thursday	2 524	5.75
Friday	1 784	5.53
Saturday	496	9.30
Sunday	143	3.85
APA			2.365	0.124
Morning	7 530	5.12
Afternoon	5 806	5.60
TD			2.872	0.021
Renal biopsy	4 408	5.15
Peritoneal dialysis	1 517	6.97
Vascular access	3 595	5.31
After renal transplant	1 492	2.62
Other	2 324	5.72
NDD			0.083	0.9
1 diagnosis	10 460	5.34
2 diagnoses	2 190	5.22
3 diagnoses	444	5.19
≥4 diagnoses	242	4.96