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Table 1 Patient demographicsa

From: Manual muscle strength testing of critically ill patients: feasibility and interobserver agreement

Demographic variable

Data

Age, yr (mean ± SD)

49 ± 15

Male sex, %

71%

Admission service

 

   Surgery, %

53%

   Medical, %

32%

   Neurology/neurosurgery, %

15%

Admission diagnosisb

 

   Trauma, %

44%

   Infection, %

29%

   Other, %

27%

Any ICU complicationsc, %

62%

Median days of mechanical ventilation prior to examination (interquartile range)

10 days (6 to 16)

Median days between eligibility and examination (interquartile range)

8 days (6 to 12)

  1. aICU, intensive care unit; b"Other" admission diagnoses include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation, congestive heart failure, variceal or subarachnoid hemorrhage, burns, drowning and alcoholic hepatitis; cICU complications include ventilator-associated pneumonia, sepsis, renal failure, bacteremia, Clostridium difficile colitis and acute respiratory distress syndrome.