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Severity of illness and outcome in the six study groups of acute respiratory failure with increasing number of additional organs in failure |
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| Mortality (n [%]) |
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| Group |
n |
Age (years [mean]) |
SAPS II (mean) |
ICU |
Hospital |
90-day |
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| ARF + 0 |
156 |
57.8 |
33.0 |
5 (3.2) |
23 (14.7) |
34 (21.8) |
| ARF + 1 |
172 |
61.6 |
45.8 |
20 (11.6) |
49 (28.5) |
75 (43.6) |
| ARF + 2 |
137 |
53.2 |
54.5 |
48 (35.0) |
57 (41.6) |
78 (56.9) |
| ARF + 3 |
56 |
56.7 |
62.0 |
38 (67.6) |
39 (69.6) |
46 (82.1) |
| ARF + 4/5 |
8 |
58.4 |
70.4 |
6 (75.0) |
6 (75.0) |
7 (87.5) |
| ARF + any* |
373 |
57.7 |
52.0 |
112 (30.0) |
151 (40.5) |
175 (46.9) |
| ARF all |
529 |
57.7 |
46.4 |
117 (22.1) |
174 (32.9) |
201 (38.0) |
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The two groups with four (n = 6) and five (n = 2) organs in failure are merged because of the small number of patients. *Any combination of acute respiratory failure (ARF) and other severe organ failure. SAPS II, Simplified Acute Physiology Score version 2. | ||||||
Flaatten et al. Critical Care 2003 7:R72 doi:10.1186/cc2331 |
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