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Demographic, anamnestic characteristics and intensive care unit data of the two groups of patients |
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| Characteristic |
Complete recall |
Incomplete recall |
p |
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| n |
14 |
30 |
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| Demographic and educational data |
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| Age, years (mean ± SD) |
54 ± 22 |
54 ± 21 |
> 0.99b |
| Male/female, n |
9/5 |
19/11 |
0.95c |
| Educational status |
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| Up to junior high school, n (percentage) |
6 (43) |
11(37) |
0.89d |
| Intermediate (college), n (percentage) |
6 (43) |
16 (53) |
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| Academic level or more, n (percentage) |
1 (7) |
1 (3) |
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| Not available, n (percentage) |
1 (7) |
2 (7) |
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| Daily alcohol intake, n (percentage) |
1 (7) |
8 (27) |
0.23c |
| ICU and hospital data |
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| Admission diagnosis, n (percentage) |
0.77c |
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| Abdominal surgery, n (percentage) |
7 (50) |
10 (33) |
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| Cardiovascular surgery, n (percentage) |
3 (21.5) |
8 (27) |
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| Trauma, n (percentage) |
3 (21.5) |
9 (30) |
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| Other, n (percentage) |
1 (7) |
3 (10) |
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| Emergency admission/elective admission, n |
7/7 |
16/14 |
> 0.99c |
| Admission SAPS II (mean ± SD) |
16 ± 10 |
20 ± 9 |
0.24b |
| Length of mechanical ventilationa, hours (median (range)) |
0 (0–15) |
0 (0–64) |
0.47e |
| Length of ICU stay, days (median (range)) |
3 (2–9) |
4 (2–25) |
0.43e |
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ICU, intensive care unit; SAPS II, Simplified Acute Physiology Score second version. In the complete recall group, patients able to mention their clinical trial participation and the two clinical trial components; in the incomplete recall group, patients were unable to mention their clinical trial participation or one of the clinical trial components. aNone of the patients were intubated at the time of the informed consent procedure; bStudent's t test; cFisher's exact test; dχ2 test; eMann–Whitney U test. | |||
Chenaud et al. Critical Care 2006 10:R170 doi:10.1186/cc5120 |
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