Table 1 Number of hospital and ICU episodes of care, by combination method
From: Constructing episodes of inpatient care: data infrastructure for population-based research
No combining of abstracts or records | ≤ 1 day gaps | ≤ 2 day gaps | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indication of inter-hospital transfer | Indication of inter-hospital transfer | ||||
Used | Not used | Used | Not used | ||
Method 1 | Method 2 | Method 3 | Method 4 | Method 5 | |
Number of episodes | |||||
Hospital episodes | 48,551 | 45,226 | 45,113 | 45,221 | 45,019 |
ICU episodes | 53,246 | 48,312 | 48,290 | 47,777 | 47,716 |
Difference vs. Method 1 | |||||
Hospital episodes | -- | 6.8% | 7.1% | 6.9% | 7.3% |
ICU episodes | -- | 9.3% | 9.3% | 10.3% | 10.4% |