Table 2

Diagnoses of index hospitalisation and of prior hospitalisations

In hospital on
10 April 2013
Died within
7 days
Died within
30 days
Died within
3 months
Died within
6 months
Died within
9 months
Died within
12 months
n=6074n=98n=276n=488n=665n=768n=878
nCol %nRow %nRow %nRow %nRow %nRow %nRow %
All*6074100.0981.62764.54888.066510.976812.687814.5
Primary diagnosis of the index stay
 Circulatory (I)80313.2212.6597.38911.112515.613717.115319.1
 Injury, poisoning and other consequences of external causes (S, T)78813.0101.3222.8405.1516.5617.77910.0
 Digestive (K)6009.981.3223.7376.2528.76310.57212.0
 Cancer (C, D00-D49)5368.8173.25911.011721.815128.217532.619736.8
 Pregnancy and childbirth (O)4607.6000000
 Respiratory (J)4086.7184.4358.65413.28320.39623.510124.8
 Musculoskeletal (M)3926.520.561.5164.1215.4235.9266.6
 Conditions originating in perinatal period (P)3395.620.630.951.561.861.872.1
 Other symptoms and signs (R)3125.120.6144.5237.43310.63812.24614.7
 Factors influencing health status (Z)2774.6020.741.451.882.993.2
 Genitourinary (N)2644.351.993.4197.22710.23212.13714.0
 Skin and subcutaneous tissue (L)1973.210.573.6115.6147.1189.12010.2
 Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E)1963.221.0126.12613.33718.94422.45226.5
 Nervous, eye and ear (G, H)1772.910.642.3126.8169.01810.22011.3
 Infectious and parasitic diseases (A, B)1702.884.72112.42514.73118.23319.43922.9
 Congenital malformations (Q)741.211.411.434.156.868.168.1
 Blood and immune diseases (D50-D89)390.60037.737.737.7512.8
 Mental and behavioural disorders (F)420.70049.5511.9716.7921.4
Prior hospitalisation history as at census date†
 Circulatory (I)294648.5812.72207.537312.750917.358920.067322.8
 Digestive (K)275945.4672.41937.033412.145316.452018.859321.5
 Injury, poisoning, external cause (S, T)254841.9421.61305.12529.934813.740515.947518.6
 Respiratory (J)189631.2593.11719.029215.438320.243623.049726.2
 Cancer129621.3362.813410.324819.133525.838229.543033.2
  • Col % indicates the percentage of all deaths that occur within each diagnosis group. Row % summarises the proportion of those in each diagnosis group who died each time interval.

  • *Only publicly funded hospitalisations included.

  • †As defined by ICD-10 primary diagnosis code.

  • ICD-10, International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision.