Table 4
Number of hospitalization episodes and average hospital days per person, by age group and hospital user category, household population aged 50 or older, Canada excluding Quebec and territories, 2007 to 2009

Table 4
Number of hospitalization episodes and average hospital days per person, by age group and hospital user category, household population aged 50 or older, Canada excluding Quebec and territories, 2007 to 2009
Table summary
This table displays the results of Number of hospitalization episodes and average hospital days per person 50 to 74, 75 or older, High users, Non-high users, 000s, %, 95% confidence interval and 95% confidence interval, calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
50 to 74 75 or older
High users Non-high users High users Non-high users
000s % 95% confidence interval 000s % 95% confidence interval 000s % 95% confidence interval 000s % 95% confidence interval
from to from to from to from to
Number of episodes
Total 33.8 100.0 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 416.1 100.0 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 36.0 100.0 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 203.3 100.0 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
1 13.9 41.1Note * 30.4 52.8 348.5 83.8 81.8 85.5 17.3 48.2Note * 40.7 55.7 157.8 77.6 75.0 80.1
2 9.5 28.3Note * 21.6 36.0 50.9 12.2 10.7 14.0 7.9 22.0 16.9 28.2 34.5 17.0 14.8 19.4
3 3.8 11.3Note E: Use with caution Note * 7.5 16.5 11.0 2.6 2.0 3.5 6.8 18.8Note E: Use with caution Note * 12.6 27.3 9.0 4.4 3.5 5.6
4 3.6 10.5Note E: Use with caution Note * 6.4 16.7 4.0 1.0Note E: Use with caution 0.7 1.4 2.3 6.5Note E: Use with caution Note * 3.5 11.8 1.5 0.8Note E: Use with caution 0.4 1.4
5 or more 3.0 8.8Note E: Use with caution Note * 5.5 13.8 1.7 0.4 0.2 1.0 1.6 4.4Note E: Use with caution Note * 2.7 7.1 Note F: too unreliable to be published Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Average days per person 59.1 54.1 64.1 5.7 5.4 6.0 62.4 57.4 67.4 8.6 8.2 9.1
... not applicable
E use with caution
F too unreliable to be published
Note *

significantly different from non-high users (p < 0.05)

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Source: 2007 to 2009 Canadian Community Health Surveys linked to 2006/2007 to 2009/2010 Discharge Abstract Database and 2007 to 2010 Canadian Mortality Database.

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