Case mix, outcome and activity for patients admitted to intensive care units requiring chronic renal dialysis: a secondary analysis of the ICNARC Case Mix Programme Database

Table 3 Mortality by number of nonrenal organ system failures in patients requiring chronic renal dialysis as compared with other admissions

Number of nonrenal organ system failures^a	Ultimate hospital mortality (deaths/admissions [%])
	Admissions requiring chronic renal dialysis	Admissions not requiring chronic renal dialysis
0	289/1,036 (27.9)	14,825/100,125 (14.8)
1	469/1,077 (43.5)	28,071/92,242 (30.4)
2	413/662 (62.4)	24,118/43,545 (55.4)
3	172/228 (75.4)	9,967/12,907 (77.2)
4	36/44 (81.8)	888/997 (89.1)

^aOrgan system failures assessed physiologically, according to the method of Knaus and coworkers [10].

ISSN: 1364-8535