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Table 2 Number of destinations and number of destinations per day estimated by the parameter setting eps1 = 200 m, eps2 = 20 min and minpts = 10 of the ST-DBSCAN algorithm

From: The spatiotemporal movement of patients in and out of a psychiatric hospital: an observational GPS study

 

Inpatients

Outpatients

p value

All

(n = 53)

(n = 31)

(inpatients versus outpatients)

(n = 84)

Total number of destinations

2041 (100.0%)

1728 (100.0%)

 

3769 (100.0%)

 at home

139 (6.8%)

345 (20.0%)

< 0.001

484 (12.8%)

 at hospital

932 (45.7%)

14 (0.8%)

 

946 (25.1%)

 at other location

726 (35.6%)

996 (57.6%)

 

1722 (45.7%)

 in transit

135 (6.6%)

152 (8.8%)

 

287 (7.6%)

 location uncleara

109 (5.3%)

221 (12.8%)

 

330 (8.8%)

Average number of destinations per patient and dayb

8.2 (4.5)

8.6 (6.0)

 

8.4 (5.2)

8 (5–10)

8 (4–12)

0.935

8 (5–11)

 at homeb

0.6 (1.3)

1.7 (1.9)

 

1.1 (1.7)

0 (0–0)

1 (0–3)

< 0.001

0 (0–2)

 at hospitalb

3.8 (3.2)

0.1 (0.3)

 

2.1 (3.0)

3 (1–6)

0 (0–0)

< 0.001

0 (0–4)

 at other locationb

2.9 (4.0)

5.0 (5.6)

 

3.8 (4.9)

2 (0–4)

3 (0–8)

< 0.001

2 (0–6)

 in transitb

0.5 (0.5)

0.8 (0.4)

 

0.6 (0.5)

1 (0–1)

1 (1–1)

< 0.001

1 (0–1)

 location uncleara,b

0.4 (1.8)

1.1 (3.0)

 

0.7 (2.4)

0 (0–0)

0 (0–0)

0.002

0 (0–0)

Summed activity area (sum of all individual cluster areas) (km2)

15.1 (83.9)

106.4 (496.3)

 

55.8 (340.0)

0.30 (0.04–2.36)

2.12 (0.25–10.14)

< 0.001

0.69 (0.06–3.72)

Percent time within a cluster with respect to the recorde total time

 at homeb

7.3 (14.4)

29.6 (31.0)

 

15.5 (24.4)

0.0 (0.0–6.6)

31.2 (0.0–57.8)

< 0.001

0.0 (0.0–30.4)

 at Hospitalb

45.9 (28.2)

0.6 (2.1)

 

29.2 (31.4)

43.1 (22.1–71.2)

0.0 (0.0–0.0)

< 0.001

16.5 (0.0–56.5)

 at other locationb

22.3 (20.0)

22.1 (23.8)

 

22.2 (21.3)

18.3 (3.7–33.6)

13.0 (0.0–43.5)

0.586

17.6 (3.2–37.0)

 in transitb

20.0 (18.6)

26.6 (16.9)

 

22.4 (18.2)

16.1 (2.7–30.6)

25.7 (14.3–41.3)

0.058

20.2 (5.1–32.6)

 location uncleara,b

4.6 (16.1)

21.1 (37.0)

 

10.7 (26.9)

0.0 (0.0–0.0)

0.0 (0.0–55.1)

0.084

0.0 (0.0–0.0)

  1. a Locations unclear since home address not known and cluster status therefore not unequivocally attributable
  2. b Statistics denote mean (SD) at first row, and median (25. – 75. percentile) at second row