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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of emergency department visits and admissions by asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking patients in 2016–2017

From: Preventable admissions and emergency-department-visits in pediatric asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking patients

Characteristics

Visits by asylum-seeking patients

Visits by non-asylum-seeking patients

Admissionsn = 149

Outpatient EDn = 297

Admissionsn = 11′645

Outpatient EDn = 63′108

N

IQR/ %

N

IQR/%

N

IQR/%

N

IQR/%

Median age

4

0–13

5

1–11

4

0–11

5

2–10

Male gender

88

59

175

59

6′456

55

34′416

55

Most frequent nationalities:

 Eritrea

34

23

48

16

Switzerland

7612

65

35′776

57

 Afghanistan

26

17

40

13

Germany

916

8

4005

6

 Syria

24

16

59

20

Italy

377

3

2475

4

 Somalia

11

7

20

7

Turkey

363

3

3446

5

 Iraq

9

6

17

6

Kosovo

331

3

2389

4

 Missing data

1

1

4

1

Missing data

4

0

4

0

 Other

44

30

109

37

Other

1991

17

15′013

24

Average days admitted

4

2–7

na

na

3

2–6

na

na

Admitted by

    

Admitted by

    

 ED

97

65

na

na

ED

7013

60

na

na

 Referral

30

20

na

na

Referral

3223

28

na

na

 Transfer other hospital

22

15

na

na

Transfer other hospital

1409

12

na

na

 Missing

0

0

       
  1. ED Emergency department, na not applicable