Pilot study for the development of an automatically generated and wearable-based early warning system for the detection of deterioration of hospitalized patients of an acute care hospital

Table 2 Main diagnosis on admission

Main diagnosis on admission	n (%)
Infectious	51 (24.4%)
Cardiovascular	33 (15.7%)
Gastrointestinal	8 (3.8%)
Dermatologic	34 (16.2%)
Pulmonary	9 (4.3%)
Oncologic /hematologic	6 (2.8%)
Neurologic	10 (4.7%)
Nephrologic/electrolyte disturbance	4 (1.9%)
Rheumatologic/Immunologic	10 (4.8%)
Endocrinologic	3 (1.4%)
Other diagnosis^a	42 (20.0%)

^aMain diagnosis on admission of all study participants. “Other diagnosis” includes all patients with diagnoses that were not attributable to any of the above categories. This includes traumatologic, orthopedic, other surgical diagnoses such as neurosurgical diagnoses. Additionally, “Other diagnosis” was picked when the main diagnosis was not clear at the time of screening/study inclusion

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