Quality of life of survivors from severe sepsis and septic shock may be similar to that of others who survive critical illness

Table 3 Characteristics of survivors from the control group and the sepsis group

	Control group					Sepsis group
Characteristic	Total (n = 479)	Subtotal (n = 295)	R (n = 133)	NR (n = 74)	Excluded (n = 88)	P ^a	Subtotal (n = 184)	R (n = 104)	NR (n = 80)	P ^a	P ^b	P ^c
Sex (%)
Male	60	58	54	51	68	0.700^d	64	64	63	0.809^d	0.493^d	0.407^d
Female	40	42	46	49	32		36	36	37
Age (years; median [25th–75th percentile])	59 (39–69)	61 (40–70)	58 (42–69)	64 (39–75)	61 (37–70)	0.229^e	57 (38–68)	52 (38–66)	62 (39–69)	0.139^e	0.181^e	0.486^e
APACHE II score (median [25th–75th percentile])	16 (11–21)	14 (10–19)	12 (8–18)	14 (10–17)	18 (13–22)	0.740^e	18 (13–22)	17 (13–21)	18 (14–23)	0.200^e	0.591^e	0.958^e
ICU days (median [25th–75th percentile])	5 (3–10)	4 (2–9)	3 (2–5)	3 (2–4)	9 (5–15)	0.695^d	7 (4–11)	8 (4–11)	6 (4–10)	0.273^d	0.052^e	0.007^e
Admission category (%)
Medical	54	38	31	31	55	0.442^d	79	77	81	0.711^d	<0.001^d	<0.001^d
Nonscheduled surgery	17	15	15	15	15		20	22	18
Scheduled surgery	20	34	44	37	15		0	0	0
Multiple Trauma	9	13	10	17	15		1	1	1

^aComparisons between nonrespondents and respondents. ^bComparisons between nonsepsis excluded and severe sepsis respondents. ^cComparisons between nonsepsis excluded and severe sepsis. ^dPearson χ² test. ^eMann–Whitney test. APACHE, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; R, respondents; NR, nonrespondents

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