Total number of all-cause admissions and days in hospital for (A) non-syndromic and (B) syndromic cleft patients in the first 2 years of life, according to cleft type; year of birth 1997–2008
| Cleft type | N* | Total number of admissions | Total number of days in hospital | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | (SD) | Median | Mean | (SD) | Median | ||
| (A) Non-syndromic patients | |||||||
| CL | 2342 | 2.6 | (1.7) | 2 | 9.2 | (14.5) | 7 |
| CP | 3378 | 2.8 | (2.2) | 2 | 12.6 | (20.3) | 9 |
| UCLP | 1881 | 4.0 | (1.9) | 4 | 16.1 | (16.8) | 13 |
| BCLP | 881 | 4.7 | (2.1) | 4 | 19.7 | (15.5) | 16 |
| All | 8482 | 3.2 | (2.1) | 3 | 13.2 | (17.9) | 10 |
| (B) Syndromic patients | |||||||
| CL | 187 | 6.6 | (6.7) | 4 | 55.3 | (121.8) | 18 |
| CP | 1827 | 6.4 | (6.2) | 5 | 48.5 | (64.6) | 28 |
| UCLP | 215 | 7.5 | (5.4) | 5 | 58.5 | (88.2) | 26 |
| BCLP | 181 | 8.8 | (6.3) | 7 | 67.5 | (94.3) | 35 |
| All | 2410 | 6.7 | (6.2) | 5 | 51.4 | (75.5) | 27 |
Hospital Episode Statistics, England 1997–2011.
*Private, non-UK patients are excluded.
BCLP, bilateral cleft lip and palate; CL, cleft lip; CP, cleft palate; UCLP, unilateral cleft lip and plate.