The graphs below demonstrate the average time of stay in days due to life-threatening injuries in both public and private hospitals located in Queensland, Australia.
Overall it’s evident that when it comes seriously injured patients stay time they’re more skewed toward public hospitals comparing to its private counterparts.
With regard to the age group of injured patients with least stay time, It’s obvious that people of age less than a year to those less than 15 never stayed at private hospital last year and public hospitals were their destination in case of an injury and they were hospitalized gradually increased from less than 10 days to more to about 20.
Patients in their early twenties and those in their late thirties set the record for longest hospitalization in public hospitals with an approximate 60 days of stay, while for private hospitals the only groups that noticeably exceed other on the same matter are adults from 20 to 25 years of age.
From the age of 40 on, the number of days spent in hospitals dramatically decreased for public hospitals from that of around 60 for those around 40 years of age to around less than 20 for elderly in their eighties. For private hospitals on the other hand this decline begins as the age of patients surpass 25 with an average stay of 30 days to less than 20 days for people in their late seventies. However, those of more than 80 years of age tend to stay longer there as they age.