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Clinical characteristics of the patients classified into the four expected outcome categories of the Sabadell score at intensive care unit discharge |
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| Good prognosis (0 points) (n = 843) |
Long-term poor prognosis (1 point) (n = 186) |
Short-term poor prognosis (2 points) (n = 95) |
Expected hospital death (3 points) (n = 32) |
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| Age (years) |
57 ± 18.3b,c,d |
67 ± 13.0a |
70 ± 13.8a |
72 ± 10.4a |
| Source of admission |
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| Emergency room |
529 (63%) |
111 (60%) |
56 (59%) |
22 (69%) |
| Surgery |
142 (17%)d |
28 (15%)d |
14 (15%)d |
0 (0%)a,b,c |
| Ward |
115 (14%) |
37 (29%) |
22 (23%) |
7 (22%) |
| Other |
57 (7%) |
10 (5%) |
3 (3%) |
3 (10%) |
| Admission diagnosis |
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| Cardiac |
234 (28%) |
57 (31%) |
23 (24%) |
15 (47%) |
| Respiratory |
74 (9%) |
45 (24%) |
18 (19%) |
4 (12%) |
| Neurological |
53 (6%)d |
10 (5%)d |
11 (12%)d |
7 (22%)a,b,c |
| Trauma |
142 (17%)b,c,d |
6 (3%)a |
5 (5%)a |
2 (6%)a |
| Other |
340 (40%)d |
68 (36%)d |
38 (40%)d |
4 (12%)a,b,c |
| Severe comorbidities (APACHE II score) |
160 (19%)b,c |
93 (50%)a,d |
45 (47%)a,d |
8 (25%)b,c |
| 'Do-not-resuscitate' orders on admission |
0 (0%) |
2 (1%) |
6 (6%) |
3 (10%)a,b |
| APACHE II risk of death (%) |
17 ± 18.3c,d |
25 ± 20.2d |
32 ± 24.7a |
39 ± 24.6a |
| Need for vasoactive drugs (n (%)) |
211 (25)d |
63 (34)d |
40 (42)d |
20 (63)a,b,c |
| Tracheal intubation (n (%)) |
303 (36)c,d |
80 (43)d |
56 (59)a |
25 (78)a,b |
| Tracheostomy (n (%)) |
34 (4)c,d |
17 (9)c,d |
23 (24)a,b,d |
15 (47)a,b,c |
| Blood transfusion (n (%)) |
185 (22) |
46 (25) |
34 (36) |
8 (25) |
| Acute renal failure (n (%)) |
67 (8)d |
20 (11)d |
10 (11)d |
8 (25)a,b,c |
| ICU-acquired infection (n (%)) |
59 (7)c,d |
19 (10)c |
26 (27)a,b |
7 (22)a |
| ICU readmission (n (%)) |
18 (2%) |
6 (3%) |
4 (4%) |
0 |
| Ward mortality (n (%)) |
14 (2%)b,c,d |
32 (17%)a,c,d |
39 (41%)a,b,d |
26 (81%)a,b,c |
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APACHE, Acute Physiologic and Chronic Health Evaluation; ICU, intensive care unit. Comparison of variables by analysis of variance: aP < 0.05 compared with good prognosis, bP < 0.05 compared with bad prognosis in the long term, cP < 0.05 compared with bad prognosis in the short term, dP < 0.05 compared with expected hospital death. | ||||
Fernandez et al. Critical Care 2006 10:R179 doi:10.1186/cc5136 |
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