From: Assessment of the capacity to consent to treatment in patients admitted to acute medical wards
Age in years +/- Standard deviation | 68.6 | +/- 18.2 |
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% | N | |
Male gender | 40.8 | 64 |
Highest level of education | ||
Primary School | 80.9 | 127 |
High school | 10.2 | 16 |
College/University | 8.9 | 14 |
Place of residence before admission | ||
Independent home or flat | 73.9 | 116 |
Health care at home | 24.2 | 38 |
Nursing home | 1.9 | 3 |
Marital Status | ||
Married/in couple | 42.7 | 67 |
single | 14.0 | 22 |
Divorced | 15.3 | 24 |
Widowed | 28.0 | 44 |
Reason for hospitalization | ||
cardiovascular disorder | 24.8 | 39 |
pulmonary disorder | 29.3 | 46 |
digestive disorder | 21.0 | 33 |
Others disorders (renal, urogenital, metabolic, osteoarticular, neurologic, etc.) | 24.9 | 39 |
Co-morbidities | ||
cardiovascular | 70.0 | 110 |
pulmonary | 38.9 | 61 |
digestive | 39.5 | 62 |
renal | 38.2 | 60 |
metabolic | 38.9 | 61 |
osteoarticular | 30.6 | 48 |
urogenital | 23.6 | 37 |
neurologic | 19.1 | 30 |
psychiatric | 15.9 | 25 |