Table 1 Summary characteristics for study variables, by surveillance type, for all local authority (n = 326), England, 2014–16
From: Estimating the burden of care home gastroenteritis outbreaks in England, 2014–2016
Routine (n = 305) | Enhanced (n = 21) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Variable | Median | 25p | 75p | Median | 25p | 75p | p value |
Number of outbreaks | 19 | 12 | 31 | 69 | 42 | 93 | < 0.0001 |
Number of care homes | 36 | 25 | 54 | 58 | 35 | 80 | 0.0037 |
Number of lab confirmed norovirus cases | 31 | 13 | 64 | 28 | 15 | 48 | 0.6246 |
Total population | 128,467 | 96,956 | 197,657 | 203,307 | 147,915 | 316,002 | 0.0030 |
Proportion under 5 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.5390 |
Proportion over 65 | 0.18 | 0.15 | 0.22 | 0.18 | 0.16 | 0.20 | 0.8626 |
Number of primary schools | 54 | 40 | 73 | 75 | 54 | 106 | 0.0014 |