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Table 1 Chronic disease admission rates and statistics of variation, by gender

From: Shared component modelling as an alternative to assess geographical variations in medical practice: gender inequalities in hospital admissions for chronic diseases

 

Men

Women

 

Total

Median per area (IQ)

Total

Median per area (IQ)

Counts

263,147

1125 (663 to 1976)

275,211

1108 (642 to 2021)

Population

1,227,278

5541 (3208 to 8940)

1,967,975

8733 (4995 to 14393)

Rate

21.44%

21.43 (17.56 to 25.01)

13.98%

13.70 (10.80 to 16.55)

Variation Statistics

  
 

EQ5-95 = 2.52 (2.32 to 2.92)

EQ5-95 = 2.55 (2.23 to 3.24)

 

CV = 0.27 (0.25 to 0.31)

CV = 0.30 (0.27 to 0.33)

 

CVw = 0.26 (0.24 to 0.31)

CVw = 0.29 (0.25 to 0.32)

 

SCV = 0.07 (0.06 to 0.10)

SCV = 0.09 (0.07 to 0.12)

 

EB = 0.07 (0.06 to 0.10)

EB = 0.10 (0.07 to 0.12)

  1. IQ: Interquartile Interval; EQ: Extremal Quotient; CV: Coefficient of Variation; CVw: Weighted Coefficient of Variation; SCV: Systematic Component of Variation; EB: Empirical Bayes statistic.