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Table 1 Admission via the emergency room, length of hospital stay selected for inclusion and number of hospital stays in 2015 with a principal diagnosis of IBS by age and IBS code

From: Healthcare use by 30,000 patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in France: a 5-year retrospective and one-year prospective national observational study

Age (years)

18–39

40–59

60–74

75 or older

Total

Admission via emergency room (%)

 k58.0

37.8

29.3

27.0

52.2

33.9

 k58.9

42.0

25.6

22.3

37.8

28.5

 k58.0 or k58.9

39.7

26.8

23.7

43.9

30.5

Length of hospital stay

 K58.0 (mean SD)

1.21 (±1.01)

1.32 (±1.39)

1.70 (±2.20)

4.59 (±6.15)

1.68 (±2.58)

 k58.9 (mean SD)

1.19 (±0.82)

1.16 (±0.85)

1.28 (±1.18)

2.44 (±3.91)

1.30 (±1.47)

 K58.0 or K58.9 (mean SD)

1.20 (±0.92)

1.21 (±1.06)

1.40 (±1.56)

3.36 (±5.10)

1.44 (±1.97)

Hospital stays

 K58.0 (mean SD)

1.04 (±0.20)

1.04 (±0.20)

1.02 (±0.15)

1.01 (±0.12)

1.03 (±0.19)

 k58.9 (mean SD)

1.05 (±0.21)

1.03 (±0.17)

1.01 (±0.13)

1.01 (±0.09)

1.03 (±0.16)

 K58.0 or K58.9 (mean SD)

1.04 (±0.21)

1.03 (±0.19)

1.02 (±0.14)

1.01 (±0.11)

1.03 (±0.18)

  1. K58.0 Irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoea, K58.9 Irritable bowel syndrome without diarrhoea