Table 2 Description of patients in orthopaedics and psychosomatics in 2016
|  | Orthopaedics (N = 305,980) | Psychosomatics (N = 117,386) |
|---|---|---|
Gender | Â | Â |
 Not female | 50.7% | 36.7% |
 Female | 49.3% | 63.3% |
Age, in years | Â | Â |
 < 25 | 0.9% | 1.1% |
 25–30 | 2.3% | 2.9% |
 31–35 | 3.4% | 4.7% |
 36–40 | 5.0% | 6.8% |
 41–45 | 7.6% | 9.6% |
 46–50 | 14.8% | 17.5% |
 51–55 | 23.0% | 23.7% |
 56–60 | 26.0% | 22.7% |
 61–65 | 17.0% | 11.1% |
Marital status | Â | Â |
 Married | 67.7% | 58.8% |
 Single | 15.4% | 19.1% |
 Divorced | 13.0% | 16.3% |
 Widowed | 2.6% | 3.5% |
 n.a | 1.4% | 2.4% |
Migration (country of birth* nationality) | Â | Â |
 Germany*German | 87.8% | 88.9% |
 Other*other | 3.4% | 3.2% |
 Other*German | 6.2% | 5.5% |
 Germany*other | 2.5% | 2.5% |
Vocational education | Â | Â |
 No | 37.8% | 33.2% |
 Yes | 62.2% | 66.8% |
Region (German states) | Â | Â |
 Former West Germany | 81.6% | 85.1% |
 New states in Germany | 18.4% | 14.9% |
Post-hospital curative treatment | Â | Â |
 No | 64.7% | 100.0% |
 Yes | 35.3% | 0.0% |
Special medical programmes | Â | Â |
 Normal | 87.0% | 75.8% |
 Work-related | 8.5% | 23.6% |
 Behavioral | 3.6% | 0.0% |
 Other | 0.9% | 0.6% |
Additional payment claim | Â | Â |
 No | 34.9% | 15.5% |
 Yes | 65.1% | 84.5% |
Application for reduced earning capacity pension | Â | Â |
 No | 97.6% | 91.1% |
 Yes | 2.4% | 8.9% |
Number of prior rehabilitations in the last 4Â years | Â | Â |
 0 | 76.7% | 81.2% |
 1 | 13.4% | 12.8% |
 2 | 7.8% | 4.9% |
 3 | 2.1% | 1.0% |
Prerehabilitation employment status (3rd month before) | Â | Â |
 Employed | 77.0% | 57.0% |
 Not employed | 23.0% | 43.0% |
Employment days one calendar year before | Â | Â |
 < 50 | 8.4% | 13.8% |
 50–99 | 1.6% | 3.2% |
 100–149 | 1.7% | 3.4% |
 150–199 | 2.6% | 4.6% |
 200–249 | 3.5% | 5.4% |
 250–299 | 4.9% | 6.0% |
 300–349 | 8.1% | 9.0% |
 ≥ 350 | 69.1% | 54.7% |
Employment days two calendar years before | Â | Â |
 < 50 | 7.7% | 7.9% |
 50–99 | 1.2% | 1.8% |
 100–149 | 1.3% | 1.9% |
 150–199 | 2.0% | 2.8% |
 200–249 | 2.5% | 3.2% |
 250–299 | 3.6% | 4.0% |
 300–349 | 4.9% | 5.6% |
 ≥ 350 | 76.9% | 72.7% |
Prerehabilitation employment status (employed) on department level (%) | Â | Â |
 Mean ± sd | 67.73 ± 7.07 | 52.48 ± 8.81 |
Regional unemployment rate (%) | Â | Â |
 Mean ± sd | 5.93 ± 2.44 | 6.32 ± 2.38 |
Employment days one calendar year after | Â | Â |
 Mean ± sd | 256.51 ± 149.58 | 214.80 ± 164.45 |