Table 1 Demographic and operative characteristics of the study population.

From: A special acute care surgery model for dealing with dilemmas involved in emergency department in China

Patients characteristics

All patients

n = 5533 (%)

Non-trauma patients

n = 4281 (%)

Trauma patients

n = 1252 (%)

P-values

Age (years) ± SD

52.69 ± 17.42

55.73 ± 17.48

49.94 ± 17.52

0.456

Sex (male/female)

3183 (57.53)/2350 (42.47)

2422 (56.57)/1859 (43.42)

761 (60.78)/491 (39.22)

0.008

LOS (days)

10.67 ± 7.27

8.73 ± 7.38

11.76 ± 13.38

0.000

ICU

381 (6.86)

273 (6.38)

108 (8.62)

0.008

Mortality

157 (2.84)

128 (2.99)

29 (2.32)

0.245

Aged 54 years

28/2689 (1.04)

17/1922 (0.88)

11/767 (1.43)

0.211

Aged 55–64 years

24/1200 (2.00)

20/960 (2.08)

4/240 (1.67)

0.802

Aged 65–74 years

46/845 (5.44)

40/725 (5.52)

6/120 (5.00)

1.000

Aged 75–84 years

42/586 (7.17)

36/503 (7.16)

6/83 (7.23)

1.000

Aged 85 years

17/213 (7.98)

15/171 (8.77)

2/42 (4.76)

0.535

Surgical operation

2703 (48.85)

2057 (48.05)

646 (51.60)

0.029

Treatment method

Elective operation

1011 (18.27)

911 (21.28)

100 (7.99)

0.000

Emergency operation

1692 (30.58)

1146 (26.77)

546 (43.61)

0.000

Non-operation

2830 (51.14)

2224 (51.95)

606 (48.40)

0.000

  1. Continuous variables are given as mean standard deviation, and categorical variables as number (percentage).