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Table 2 Admitted fraction at different levels of in-hospital occupancy

From: The probability of patients being admitted from the emergency department is negatively correlated to in-hospital bed occupancy – a registry study

  

<95%

95–100%

100–105%

>105%

Total

All units

Admitted

16,845 (31.5%)

10,580 (30.9%)

7,159 (29.9%)

2,033 (28.7%)

36,617 (30.9%)

Total

53,405

34,258

23,920

7,085

118,668

Medicine unit

Admitted

7,826 (48.1%)

4,831 (46.2%)

3,065 (46.7%)

801 (46.3%)

16,523 (47.2%)

Total

16,266

10,452

6,569

1,729

35,016

Surgery unit

Admitted

4,358 (33.2%)

2,554 (31.6%)

1,718 (33.2%)

472 (35.1%)

9,102 (32.8%)

Total

13,129

8,070

5,167

1,344

27,710

Orthopaedics unit

Admitted

1,959 (15.2%)

1,247 (15.7%)

694 (13.2%)

216 (14.0%)

4,116 (14.9%)

Total

12,880

7,930

5,251

1,539

27,600

Emergency physician unit

Admitted

1,932 (30.2%)

1,424 (31.2%)

1,376 (32.0%)

428 (28.6%)

5,160 (30.8%)

Total

6,391

4,558

4,296

1,495

16,740

Otolaryngology

Admitted

770 (16.2%)

524 (16.1%)

306 (11.6%)

116 (11.9%)

1,716 (14.8%)

 

Total

4,739

3,248

2,637

978

11,602