Emergency Admissions: Age & Gender Profile (part 2)

Lessons from an undisclosed NHS Trust

With facebook folk very sensibly asking if the age profile of emergency department admissions has changed between pre and post pandemic periods I thought I’d let my tea brew a little longer and produce this pleasing plot. I’ve flipped the y-axis (vertical) from raw counts to percentages to permit comparisons across pandemic phases. The greatest changes are seen with the under 12 year group. Note how the pandemic phase 3 percentages kick back up for the under 12y, 12-17y and 18-24y categories but not for any other age group. The marked progression and decline in the 80+y category is also interesting and is likely to be partly a result of survival bias.