Table 4

An abridged table of the Simplified Acute Physiology Scores for ICU patients according to presence of infection on ICU admission and/or ICU-acquired infection


Infection state


Patient no.
Noinfection (group 1)
Infection on admission (group 2)
ICU-acquired infection (group 3)
On admission and ICU-acquired infection (group 4)

1
37.9
39.9
28.1
34.5
2
19.0
21.3
29.1
41.5
3
30.4
19.4
30.0
40.1
4
31.4
24.6
34.3
53.1
5
44.4
51.5
32.4
46.3





100
25.3
30.2
27.4
39.5
Sample mean
35.2
39.5
39.4
40.9
Sample standard deviation
14.5
15.1
14.1
14.1

ICU, intensive care unit.

Bewick et al. Critical Care 2004 8:130   doi:10.1186/cc2836