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Table 1 Demographic information and health service use for adult patients over 18 years of age who presented to HSN and were referred to the AMCT between November 2019 and July 2021

From: Building an inpatient addiction medicine consult service in Sudbury, Canada: preliminary data and lessons learned in the era of COVID-19

Patient characteristics

Sex n (%)

 

 Male

533 (63.99)

 Female

300 (36.01)

Age mean (STD)

42.56 (14.99)

Average monthly overdose visits mean (STD)

0.71 (1.77)

Average monthly ED visits for mental health mean (STD)

3.20 (8.43)

Average monthly ED visits for substance use mean (SD)

1.41 (5.25)

Average monthly ED visits for all other reasons

7.85 (12.32)

Average monthly acute inpatient admission for mental health mean (SD)

1.84 (4.23)

Average monthly acute inpatient admission for all other reasons mean (SD)

2.72 (3.97)

  1. *n = number
  2. *STD = standard deviation