Table 1 Hospital admissions for pneumonia in the Veneto Region by patients’ characteristics and age group (2004–2012)
From: A population-based study on the impact of hospitalization for pneumonia in different age groups
Total | Age groups | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Characteristics | 0-4 | 5-14 | 15-64 | 65-79 | 80+ | |||||||
(n. 110,927) | (n. 11,430) | (n. 4,765) | (n. 18,299) | (n. 28,886) | (n. 47,547) | |||||||
Gender [n (%]) | ||||||||||||
Males | 59,442 | (53.6) | 6,151 | (53.8) | 2,575 | (54.0) | 11,266 | (61.6) | 18,181 | (62.9) | 21,269 | (44.7) |
Females | 51,485 | (46.4) | 5,279 | (46.2) | 2,190 | (46.0) | 7,033 | (38.4) | 10,705 | (37.1) | 26,278 | (55.3) |
Nationality [n (%]) | ||||||||||||
Italian | 106,031 | (95.6) | 9,382 | (82.1) | 4,147 | (87.0) | 16,546 | (90.4) | 28,583 | (99.0) | 47,373 | (99.6) |
Foreign | 4,896 | (4.4) | 2,048 | (17.9) | 618 | (13.0) | 1,753 | (9.6) | 303 | (1.0) | 174 | (0.4) |
First listed diagnosis [n (%]) | ||||||||||||
Pneumonia | 108,278 | (97.6) | 11,270 | (98.6) | 4,704 | (98.7) | 17,587 | (96.1) | 28,003 | (96.9) | 46,714 | (98.2) |
Septicemia | 2,014 | (1.8) | 79 | (0.7) | 20 | (0.4) | 424 | (2.3) | 714 | (2.5) | 777 | (1.6) |
Meningitis | 388 | (0.3) | 36 | (0.3) | 11 | (0.2) | 183 | (1.0) | 130 | (0.5) | 28 | (0.1) |
Empyema | 247 | (0.2) | 45 | (0.4) | 30 | (0.6) | 105 | (0.6) | 39 | (0.1) | 28 | (0.1) |
Comorbidity [n (%]) | ||||||||||||
Heart diseases | 19,163 | (17.3) | 3 | (0.0) | 3 | (0.1) | 695 | (3.8) | 5,229 | (18.1) | 13,233 | (27.8) |
COPD and asthma | 11,466 | (10.3) | 366 | (3.2) | 141 | (3.0) | 1,232 | (6.7) | 4,321 | (15.0) | 5,406 | (11.4) |
Diabetes mellitus | 11,302 | (10.2) | 3 | (0.0) | 10 | (0.2) | 1,478 | (8.1) | 4,443 | (15.4) | 5,368 | (11.3) |
Dementia | 9,393 | (8.5) | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | 119 | (0.7) | 1,933 | (6.7) | 7,341 | (15.4) |
Stroke | 7,511 | (6.8) | 2 | (0.0) | 2 | (0.0) | 257 | (1.4) | 2,023 | (7.0) | 5,227 | (11.0) |
Renal disease | 6,892 | (6.2) | 19 | (0.2) | 28 | (0.6) | 622 | (3.4) | 2,030 | (7.0) | 4,193 | (8.8) |
Cancer | 5,951 | (5.4) | 27 | (0.2) | 30 | (0.6) | 975 | (5.3) | 2,625 | (9.1) | 2,294 | (4.8) |
Hospital stay (days [SD]) | 11.6 | (10.1) | 4.7 | (3.6) | 5.1 | (3.7) | 10.9 | (10.0) | 13.2 | (10.1) | 13.2 | (10.6) |
Hospitalization cost/year [million €] | 40.0 | 4.5 | 1.9 | 6.6 | 10.5 | 16.5 | ||||||