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Table 2 Characteristics according to bedriddenness rank

From: High inter-rater reliability of Japanese bedriddenness ranks and cognitive function scores: a hospital-based prospective observational study

Bedriddenness rank (n) Normal (66) J1 (10) J2 (15) A1 (18) A2 (31) B1 (37) B2 (35) C1 (22) C2 (32) p valuea
Age (year) 82 (78–87) 85 (81–91) 88 (84–91) 82 (80–90) 87 (81–90) 88 (87–91) 89 (82–93) 88 (85–93) 87 (83–92) < 0.001
Gender, Male 42 (64%) 4 (40%) 1 (7%) 10 (56%) 10 (32%) 12 (32%) 13 (37%) 11 (50%) 9 (28%) 0.001
Admitted by ambulance 2 (3%) 0 (0%) 1 (7%) 4 (22%) 7 (23%) 3 (8%) 6 (17%) 7 (32%) 6 (19%) 0.010
Presence of referral medical letter 15 (23%) 3 (30%) 6 (40%) 8 (44%) 11 (36%) 18 (49%) 14 (40%) 10 (46%) 19 (59%) 0.050
Department: Internal medicine 34 (52%) 8 (80%) 7 (47%) 11 (61%) 21 (67%) 20 (54%) 28 (80%) 15 (68%) 26 (81%) 0.182
General surgery 8 (12%) 1 (10%) 5 (33%) 4 (22%) 4 (13%) 6 (16%) 1 (3%) 2 (9%) 3 (9%)
Cardiovascular Surgery 14 (21%) 0 (0%) 1 (7%) 1 (6%) 3 (10%) 7 (19%) 2 (6%) 4 (18%) 1 (3%)
Place of abode before admission: Home 65 (99%) 9 (90%) 15 (100%) 14 (78%) 27 (87%) 26 (70%) 30 (86%) 18 (82%) 16 (50%) < 0.001
Care facility 0 (0%) 1 (10%) 0 (0%) 3 (17%) 3 (10%) 5 (14%) 2 (6%) 1 (5%) 1 (3%)
Hospital 1 (2%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (6%) 1 (3%) 6 (16%) 3 (9%) 3 (14%) 15 (47%)
Duration of hospitalization (day) 9 (5–12) 8 (5–22) 12 (3–18) 11 (9–17) 16 (9–25) 14 (8–22) 16 (11–22) 12 (7–23) 26 (12–40) < 0.001
Place of abode after discharge: Home 53 (95%) 5 (63%) 13 (100%) 11 (65%) 21 (81%) 16 (50%) 16 (46%) 7 (37%) 2 (7%) < 0.001
Care facility 1 (2%) 1 (13%) 0 (0%) 2 (12%) 3 (12%) 12 (38%) 13 (37%) 6 (32%) 7 (26%)
Hospital 1 (2%) 1 (13%) 0 (0%) 3 (18%) 1 (4%) 1 (3%) 4 (11%) 2 (11%) 10 (37%)
Death within 30 days after discharge 1 (2%) 1 (14%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 2 (6%) 1 (3%) 2 (12%) 4 (17%) 0.059
  1. Categorical variables are presented as the number of patients and percentages, and continuous variables as the median and quartile range
  2. aFor continuous and categorical variables, between-group comparisons were made using the F-test for analysis of variance and the Chi-square test, respectively