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Table 4 Emergency wait less than or greater than 7 h

From: Assessing the association between occupancy and outcome in critically Ill hospitalized patients with sepsis

 

All patients

  

Sepsis patients

  

Severe sepsis patients

  

n = 1770

n = 1036 (58.5 %)

n = 734 (41.5 %)

≤7 h

>7 h

P

≤7 h

>7 h

P

≤7 h

>7 h

P

Variable

n = 488 (27.6 %)

n = 1282 (72.4 %)

n = 226 (21.8 %)

n = 810 (78.2 %)

n = 262 (35.7 %)

n = 472 (64.3 %)

Age (years) Median

60.83

67.67

< 0.001

60.58

67.17

0.001

61

68.21

< 0.001

Sex (female)

213 (43.6 %)

599 (46.7 %)

0.268

104 (46 %)

374 (42.2 %)

0.973

109 (41.6 %)

374 (46.2 %)

0.133

ICU LOS (days) Median

5

4

0.974

3

4

0.59

5

5

0.946

Hospital LOS (days) Median

10

10

0.693

7.5

9

0.082

13.5

11

0.337

Bed transfers mean

3.08

2.7

0.008

2.59

2.43

0.38

3.5

3.15

0.115

Ward transfers mean

1.9

1.71

0.007

1.67

1.57

0.26

2.1

1.95

0.183

Triage level mean

1.94

2.37

< 0.001

2.08

2.4

< 0.001

1.82

2.31

< 0.001

Charlson index mean

0.6

0.6

0.978

0.56

0.6

0.652

0.63

0.59

0.639

ICU admission (admitted)

323 (66.2 %)

362 (28.2 %)

< 0.001

99 (43.8 %)

142 (17.5 %)

< 0.001

224 (85.5 %)

220 (46.6 %)

< 0.001

Hospital outcome (alive)

324 (66.4 %)

957 (74.6 %)

0.001

169 (74.8 %)

652 (80.5 %)

0.075

155 (59.2 %)

305 (64.6 %)

0.166

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