Total number of all-cause ‘emergency’ admissions and days in hospital for patients in the first 2 years of life, according to syndrome status; year of birth 1997–2008
| Syndrome status | N* | Total number of emergency admissions | Total number of days in hospital | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | (SD) | Median | Mean | (SD) | Median | ||
| Non-syndromic | 2984 | 1.7 | (0.6) | 1 | 5.9 | (16.5) | 3 |
| Syndromic | 1622 | 3.8 | (4.2) | 2 | 23.2 | (41.7) | 9 |
| All | 4606 | 2.5 | (3.0) | 1 | 12.0 | (29.3) | 4 |
Hospital Episode Statistics, England 1997–2011.
*Private, non-UK patients are excluded. Not all patients had an emergency admission.