Emergency Presentations for Dizziness—Radiological Findings, Final Diagnoses, and Mortality

Table 5

Outcomes, stratified by groups.

	Primary complaint (n = 207, 2.3%)	Secondary complaint (n = 924, 10.0%)	Nondizzy patients (n = 7998, 87.7%)
Admission (n (%))	82 (39.6)	368 (39.8)	2674 (33.4)	<0.001
ICU admission (n (%))	11 (5.3)	38 (4.1)	439 (5.5)	0.212
Mortality (n (%))
30 day	0 (0)	12 (1.3)	197 (2.6)	0.006
100 day	2 (1.0)	20 (2.2)	315 (4.1)	0.002
1 year	8 (3.9)	55 (6.2)	553 (7.2)	0.111

Only the first presentation of each patient was included in the outcome calculations (n = 9129), to ensure correct calculations of the mortality rates. Data are shown as mean and SD for continuous variables and as count and percentage for categorical variables. ICU: Intensive Care Unit.