Table 3

Utilisation of secondary healthcare at the cardiology department during 1 year

	Diagnosis at discharge					P values
	CCP* (N=484)†	ACS (N= 322)†	NCCP‡ (N= 732)†	NCCP-K (N= 347)†	NCCP-U (N= 384)†	CCP vs NCCP	ACS vs NCCP	NCCP-K vs NCCP-U
Re-presentations, n (SD)	0.43 (0.85)	0.44 (0.85)	0.23 (0.72)	0.18 (0.68)	0.27 (0.75)	<0.001	<0.001	0.013
Re-presentations of patients with re-presentations, n (SD)§	1.53¶ (0.93)	1.55¶ (0.906)	1.67¶ (1.16)	1.72¶ (1.34)	1.64¶ (1.06)	0.628	0.918	0.960
Hospitalisations, n (SD)	1.02 (0.78)	1.21 (0.713)	0.23 (0.57)	0.17 (0.46)	0.30 (0.65)	<0.001	<0.001	0.001
Duration of hospitalisation, hours (SD)	142.56 (165.30)	148.32 (165.99)	72.75 (127.82)	74.64 (73.24)	71.76 (148.76)	<0.001	<0.001	0.157
Re-hospitalisations, n (SD)	0.32 (0.65)	0.34 (0.66)	0.13 (0.46)	0.09 (0.35)	0.17 (0.54)	<0.001	<0.001	0.024
Duration of re-hospitalisations, hours (SD)	109.18 (213.44)	102.61 (213.36)	112.43 (229.11)	34.80 (21.25)	155.60 (278.60)	0.582	0.697	0.312
Duration of outpatient department monitoring, days (SD)	311.42 (120.37)	329.50 (102.14)	159.78 (167.56)	134.78 (163.65)	182.41 (168.05)	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Outpatient department visits, n (SD)	1.91 (1.07)	1.98 (1.07)	1.05 (1.05)	0.90 (1.01)	1.19 (1.07)	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Consultations by phone, n (SD)	0.14 (0.46)	0.12 (0.39)	0.12 (0.52)	0.09 (0.55)	0.14 (0.48)	0.123	0.357	0.035

Re-presentations: average number of re-presentations per patient, Re-presentations excluding: average number of re-presentations per patient, excluding patients without re-presentations.
*CCP includes patients with ACS.
†7, 6, 9 and 9 loss of follow-up in the CCP, ACS, NCCP-K and NCCP-U groups, respectively.
‡NCCP group is a sum of patients with NCCP-K and NCCP-U.
§Excludes patients without re-presentations.
¶n=136, 28.0%; n=92, 28.6%; n=100, 13.7%; n=36, 10.4%; n=64, 16.7% in the CCP, ACS, NCCP-K and NCCP-U groups, respectively.
ACS, acute coronary syndrome; CCP, cardiac chest pain; NCCP, non-CCP; NCCP-K, NCCP of known origin, NCCP-U of unknown origin.