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The most male and female reasons to end up hospital

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Re: The most male and female reasons to end up hospital

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Post by belorn »

hvb2 wrote: post #3

So to summarize... Men, stop riding motorcycles Women, stop having kids That last one might have some detrimental effects long term though. So while men are taking risks, women take one for the team

The pregnancy numbers are a policy and not related to accidents. It would be similar to say that children at age 3, 5 and 12 months are much more likely to end up in the hospital than other age groups, since those are the ages when they get vaccinations.

As with all statistics, there is some apple to oranges comparisons and some contexts that get lost.

Re: The most male and female reasons to end up hospital

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Post by Spooky23 »

Scubabear68 wrote: post #19
ho_schi wrote: post #7

Dear Females, are males riding bicycles wrong? Thanks PS: Female and male riders had this year nasty crashes in our club :(

In the United States, males are known to be as stupid as a box of rocks when it comes to any sort of moving vehicle. Male cyclists are much more prone to be doing 40mph wheelies down a blind hill in the middle of the road than woman. Don't get me started on motorcycles, PA is just next store (we are over the border in NJ). PA doesn't require helmets for motorcycle riders, and many male riders happily throw helmets to…

The helmet less riders are less likely to go the hospital, because if anything happens they are dead.

Re: The most male and female reasons to end up hospital

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Post by zamadatix »

mitthrowaway2 wrote: post #23
zamadatix wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These things wouldn't be classified as hospital admissions.

"Supervision of normal pregnancy" seems to fall into this category, doesn't it?

And herein lies the joys of medical coding :). Likely more than 235k normal pregnancy checkups happening in hospitals over 3 years in the UK, these "Z34" codes will likely get coded as admissions if someone is admitted for concerns around the pregnancy and the net result is everything with the pregnancy ended up fine. Maybe some other oddball scenarios I'm not thinking of too, but if you just go in for a planned pregnancy checkup and it comes out fine it (shouldn't) be coded as an admission just because it was done in a hospital location. Unless the NHS just has really odd coding practices, which is possible, but the other chart isn't drowning in 10s and 10s of millions of vaccinations of each type either.

For similar reasons you may find a ton of other things which aren't normally an admission in the data, but at numbers less than one might expect because that alone isn't usually reason to admit.

I'm glad I got out of healthcare IT!

Re: The most male and female reasons to end up hospital

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Post by cryzinger »

echelon wrote: post #35
Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #33

Who on earth are those 1.7% men who go for "obstetric and gynaecological devices"? Are they accompanying their wives, end up fainting during the procedures, hit their heads and have to be patched up?

They might be trans.

That's also my guess, and specifically: if you're a trans man with a uterus, odds are high that you'd like to get it removed. Therefore hysterectomy, therefore hospital.

Re: The most male and female reasons to end up hospital

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Post by luqtas »

steego wrote: post #32
knallfrosch wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a ridiculously sexist thing to even dare say out loud. The most male-dominated category is "fall from scaffolding." Men aren't up there for fun. They built the roof that shelters you and your family when it storms.

Aren’t we being a little sensitive? The OP didn’t say all of the reasons for male related injuries were needless, but if you look at the list, it’s dominated by activities that are inherently voluntary and risky.

aren't you being a little naive by calling dangerous activities men have to take to survive "inherently voluntary"? go to a 3° world country or works as an immigrant somewhere rich to check your options. transportation included. it's easy to say one shouldn't use a cheap motorcycle and go for the one way sardine packed 2 hours bus ride across the city to reach work, everyday

Re: The most male and female reasons to end up hospital

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Post by jeremyjh »

mitthrowaway2 wrote: post #23
zamadatix wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These things wouldn't be classified as hospital admissions.

"Supervision of normal pregnancy" seems to fall into this category, doesn't it?

I'm a little bit confused about what that is. If you are admitted to hospital for pregnancy and its not delivery (thats a different category that is far larger in absolute numbers) then something has gone wrong.
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