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Hospital and demographic characteristics for participating centers |
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| Characteristic |
Hospital Albert Einstein |
Hospital Geral do Grajaú |
Hospital Governador Celso Ramos |
Hospital Universitário da UFSC |
Hospital dos Servidores do Estado de SP |
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| (Center 1) |
(Center 2) |
(Center 3) |
(Center 4) |
(Center 5) |
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| Type |
Private tertiary hospital |
Public community hospital managed by a private university |
Public tertiary hospital with a regional trauma center |
Public University hospital |
Public tertiary teaching hospital |
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| Number of beds |
400 |
249 |
272 |
255 |
391 |
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| Number of ICU beds |
28 |
12 |
12 |
06 |
16 |
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| Stepdown unit |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
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| Mean monthly hospital admissions |
1400 |
1050 |
503 |
624 |
2184 |
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| Mean monthly ICU admissions |
170 |
38 |
46 |
25 |
103 |
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| Enrollment period |
21 May to 10 October 2001 |
21 May to 10 October 2001 |
21 May to 10h October 2001 |
21 May to 10 October 2001 |
1 November to 31 January 2002 |
Overall |
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| Number of ICU admissions |
837 |
194 |
228 |
124 |
305 |
1688 |
| Number of excluded patients |
100 |
02 |
07 |
10 |
13 |
132 |
| Number of missed patients |
134 |
11 |
02 |
12 |
14 |
173 |
| Number of enrolled patients |
603 |
181 |
219 |
102 |
278 |
1383 |
| Ratio of >24 h patients to all patients |
0.59 |
0.80 |
0.57 |
0.75 |
0.64 |
0.64 |
| Mean ICU LOS, days |
1 (1–4) |
4 (2–9) |
2 (1–7) |
2 (1–6) |
2 (1–6) |
2 (1–6) |
| Overall ICU mortality rate,% |
11.6 |
38.25 |
27.7 |
28.7 |
26.1 |
21.8 |
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ICU, intensive care unit; LOS, length of stay. Figures in parentheses are interquartile ranges. | ||||||
Silva et al. Critical Care 2004 8:R251 doi:10.1186/cc2892 |
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