Table 1 General characteristics of the study cohort. Subgroup A: from March 2019 to March 2020. Subgroup B: from March 2020 to October 2022
From: Pediatric acute hospitalization for anorexia nervosa: an economic evaluation
Parameters | Value |
|---|---|
Number of patients | 260 |
Median age in years (range) | 15 (6–18) |
Number of males/females (%) | 17/243 (6.5/93.5) |
Median length of hospitalization in days (range) | 19 (1–65) |
Number of patients hospitalized in subgroup A (%) | 36 (13.8) |
Number of patients hospitalized in subgroup B (%) | 224 (86.2) |
Number of guarded patients (%) | 11 (4.2) |
Number of patients who required enteral feeding (%) | 112 (43.1) |
Median days between admission and the start of enteral feeding (range) | 3 (0–23) |
Number of patients who presented comorbidities (%) | 63 (24.2) |
Number of patients with mood disorder (%) | 39 (15) |
Number of patients with anxious spectrum disorder (%) | 14 (5.4) |
Number of patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (%) | 8 (3.1) |
Number of patients with other comorbidities (%) | 16 (6.1) |
Total health care cost for hospitalizations in EUR | 3,352,333 |
Median cost for each hospitalization in EUR (range) | 11,124 (930-45739) |
Median daily cost in EUR (range) | 593 (557–930) |