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Table 3 In-hospital outcomes of patients in tertiles of hospitals with regard to median length of stay

From: National trends in hospital length of stay for acute myocardial infarction in China

 

All hospitals (n = 12706)

High-tertile hospitals (n = 4784)

Middle-tertile hospitals (n = 5105)

Low-tertile hospitals (n = 2817)

P-value

Recurrent myocardial infarction

67 (0.5)

25 (0.5)

25 (0.5)

17 (0.6)

0.8

Cardiac arrest

124 (1.0)

55 (1.2)

47 (0.9)

22 (0.8)

0.3

Cardiogenic shock

154 (1.2)

63 (1.3)

60 (1.2)

31 (1.1)

0.7

New-onset heart failure

1656 (13.0)

612 (12.8)

688 (13.5)

356 (12.6)

0.9

Recurrent angina

2120 (16.7)

883 (18.5)

702 (13.8)

535 (19.0)

0.08

Atrial fibrillation

310 (2.4)

127 (2.7)

104 (2.0)

79 (2.8)

0.2

Stroke

63 (0.5)

29 (0.6)

22 (0.4)

12 (0.4)

0.4

Bleeding

769 (6.1)

321 (6.7)

314 (6.2)

134 (4.8)

0.2

Acute renal failure

66 (0.5)

26 (0.5)

31 (0.6)

9 (0.3)

0.4

Ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation

426 (3.4)

175 (3.7)

163 (3.2)

88 (3.1)

0.7

Infection

1397 (11.0)

601 (12.6)

551 (10.8)

245 (8.7)

0.04

  1. Numbers in the second to the fifth columns represent count (percentage), unless otherwise specified.