15th Annual Congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, 29 September–2 October 2002, Barcelona, Spain: Clinical research to improve outcome

Table 1 Sepsis Occurrence in the Acutely ill Patient (SOAP) study: patient characteristics

Characteristic	Value
Age (years); median (interquartile range)	64 (50–74)
Provenance from medical wards	1951 (62)
Mean SAPS II score [1]	34
SOFA score values [2] at inclusion	5
SOFA maximum	6
SOFA mean during study period	4
ICU duration of stay (days)	3
Hospital duration of stay (days)	15
ICU mortality	582 (18.5)
Infection*	1177 (37.4)
Clinical suspicion of infection	966 (30.7)
Positive microbiological cultures	906 (28.8)
Antibiotic therapy	2001 (63.6)
Sepsis [3]	1091 (34.7)
Severe sepsis [3]	928 (29.5)
Septic shock [3]	462 (14.7)
Presence of venous central lines	2272 (72.2)
Presence of pulmonary artery catheter	481 (15.3)
Mechanical ventilation	2023 (64.3)
Haemodialysis	142 (4.5)
Continuous veno-venous haemofiltration	211 (6.7)

Shown is a summary of patient characteristics from the SOAP study (n = 3147). Values are expressed as number (%), unless otherwise stated. *Defined as clinical suspicion of infection and/or positive microbiological culture plus use of antibiotic therapy. ICU, intensive care unit; SAPS, Simplified Acute Physiology Score; SOFA, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment.

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