Statistics about Eye foreign body
Society statistics for Eye foreign body
Hospitalization statistics for Eye foreign body:
The following are statistics from various sources
about hospitalizations and Eye foreign body:
- 0.006% (787) of hospital consultant episodes were for foreign body on external eye in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 99% of hospital consultant episodes for foreign body on external eye required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 81% of hospital consultant episodes for foreign body on external eye were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 19% of hospital consultant episodes for foreign body on external eye were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 83% of hospital consultant episodes for foreign body on external eye required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 0.3 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for foreign body on external eye in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 0 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for foreign body on external eye in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 33 was the mean age of patients hospitalised for foreign body on external eye in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 68% of hospital consultant episodes for foreign body on external eye occurred in 15-59 year olds in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 3% of hospital consultant episodes for foreign body on external eye occurred in people over 75 in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 13% of hospital consultant episodes for foreign body on external eye were single day episodes in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 0.0004% (233) of hospital bed days were for foreign body on external eye in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
About statistics:
This page presents a variety of statistics about Eye foreign body.
The term 'prevalence' of Eye foreign body usually refers to the estimated population
of people who are managing Eye foreign body at any given time.
The term 'incidence' of Eye foreign body refers to the annual diagnosis rate,
or the number of new cases of Eye foreign body diagnosed each year.
Hence, these two statistics types can differ:
a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence,
but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence.
For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.
