All patients | 5960 | 717 (12) | 111 (1.9) | 2429 | 1351 (56) | 43 (1.8) |
Acute medical illness | 2241 | 140 (6.2) | 60 (2.7) | 1690 | 1041 (62) | 35 (2.1) |
Infection | 609 | 31 (5.1) | 8 (1.3) | 797 | 507 (64) | 16 (2.0) |
Arthropathy | 819 | 32 (3.9) | 6 (0.7) | 36 | 13 (36) | 1 (2.8) |
Cancer | 369 | 38 (10) | 31 (8.4) | 199 | 114 (57) | 7 (3.5) |
Respiratory insufficiency | 200 | 11 (5.5) | 1 (0.5) | 163 | 114 (70) | 3 (1.8) |
Acute stroke | 84 | 13 (15) | 4 (4.8) | 182 | 91 (50) | 3 (1.6) |
Heart insufficiency | 111 | 12 (11) | 9 (8.1) | 131 | 97 (74) | 3 (2.3) |
Ischaemic heart disease | 13 | 3 (23) | 0 | 89 | 63 (71) | 0 |
Inflammatory bowel disease | 22 | 0 | 1 (4.6) | 47 | 16 (34) | 0 |
Other | 14 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 26 (57) | 2 (4.3) |
Trauma | 1677 | 459 (27) | 6 (0.4) | 187 | 108 (58) | 1 (0.5) |
Chronic immobilisation | 1477 | 59 (4.0) | 35 (2.4) | 159 | 57 (36) | 2 (1.3) |
Dementia | 951 | 39 (4.1) | 25 (2.6) | 108 | 27 (25) | 1 (0.9) |
Lower limb paralysis | 526 | 20 (3.8) | 10 (1.9) | 51 | 30 (59) | 1 (2.0) |
Other reasons | 565 | 59 (10) | 10 (1.8) | 393 | 145 (37) | 5 (1.3) |
Duration of immobilisation | | | | | | |
<7 days | 1226 | 78 (6.4) | 22 (1.8) | 944 | 483 (51) | 22 (2.3) |
1–4 weeks | 2398 | 363 (15) | 36 (1.5) | 1272 | 740 (58) | 18 (1.4) |
5–8 weeks | 567 | 128 (23) | 10 (1.8) | 112 | 74 (66) | 1 (0.9) |
>8 weeks | 1670 | 135 (8.1) | 41 (2.5) | 67 | 36 (54) | 2 (3.0) |