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Description of the included population |
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| n = 172 patients |
Cardiac surgery 23.3% |
Non-cardiac surgery 37.2% |
Internal medicine 40.5% |
P value of difference |
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| Age in years, mean (SD) |
60 (14.9) |
67 (10.2) |
58 (14.4) |
58 (16.4) |
0.002a |
| Male gender |
n = 102 |
28.4% |
39.2% |
32.4% |
0.04b |
| Female gender |
n = 70 |
15.7% |
34.3% |
50.0% |
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| APACHE II score, mean (SD) |
20.6 (9.0) |
- |
20.1 (8.0) |
21.1 (10.0) |
0.65a |
| TISS 28 score, mean (SD) |
28.6 (5.4) |
32.7 (4.7) |
28.4 (4.5) |
26.5 (5.4) |
<0.001a |
| Length of stay in days, mean (SD) |
7.0 (8.9) |
5.7 (8.5) |
7.3 (10.2) |
7.4 (7.9) |
0.59a |
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aP value of difference calculated with one-way analysis of variance. bP value of difference calculated with the chi-square test. APACHE, Acute Physiology And Chronic Health Evaluation; SD, standard deviation; TISS 28, Simplified Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System 28. | |||||
Van Rompaey et al. Critical Care 2008 12:R16 doi:10.1186/cc6790 |
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