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Table 2 Patient data sorted by level of hospital care

From: A German national prevalence study on the cost of intensive care: an evaluation from 51 intensive care units

 

All patients

Primary care hospitals

General care hospitals

Focused care hospitals

Maximum care hospitals

Patients (% (n))

100 (453)

20.5 (93)

22.7 (103)

24.5 (111)

32.2 (146)

Age (years) (median (Q1–Q3))

68 (56.8–76.0)

69.0 (60.0–78.0)

71.0 (58.0–78.5)

68.0 (60.0–75.5)

68.0 (53.3–73.0)

Gender (% (n))

     

   Male

55.2 (250)

46.2 (43)

46.6 (48)

63.1 (70)

61.0 (89)

   Female

44.8 (203)

53.8 (50)

53.4 (55)

36.9 (41)

39.0 (57)

Admission from (% (n))

     

   Operation room

36.0 (163)

26.9 (25)

39.8 (41)

58.6 (65)

63.0 (92)

   General ward

14.1 (64)

33.3 (31)

21.4 (22)

15.3 (17)

16.4 (24)

   Emergency ward/ambulance

21.0 (95)

35.5 (33)

32.0 (33)

5.4 (6)

15.8 (23)

   Other hospital/intensive care unit

8.4 (38)

4.3 (4)

3.9 (4)

20.7 (23)

4.8 (7)

Readmission

6,8 (31)

4.3 (4)

6.8 (7)

7.2 (8)

8.2 (12)

Reason for admission (% (n))

     

   Nonsurgical

35.8 (162)

59.1 (55)

42.7 (44)

24.3 (27)

25.3 (37)

   Surgical scheduled

32.2 (146)

12.9 (12)

23.3 (24)

49.6 (55)

37 (54)

   Unscheduled surgery

32.0 (145)

28.0 (26)

34.0 (35)

26.1 (29)

37.7 (55)

Severity of illness (median (Q1–Q3))

     

   SOFA score

4 (2–6)

3 (2–6)

3 (2–6)

3 (2.5–7)

4 (2–7)

   SAPS II score

32 (23–44)

35 (23–46)

30 (20–40.5)

30 (21.5–44.5)

31 (25–45.8)

Workload, TISS score (median (Q1–Q3))

27 (19–35)

23 (16–30)

24 (18–29)

27 (19–36)

33 (24–38)

High resource intensive (% (n))

     

   Mechanical ventilation

41.7 (189)

30.1 (28)

24.3 (25)

47.8 (53)

56.9 (83)

   Renal replacement therapy

4.2 (19)

1.1 (1)

1.9 (2)

5.4 (6)

6.9 (10)

   Invasive proceduresa

52.5 (238)

46.2 (43)

43.7 (45)

56.8 (63)

59.6 (87)

   Antibiotic/mycotic treatment

55.9 (253)

51.6 (48)

49.5 (51)

56.8 (63)

62.3 (91)

   Blood products

13.7 (62)

10.8 (10)

10.7 (11)

17.1(19)

15.1 (22)

   Diagnostic proceduresb

93.8 (425)

93.6 (87)

94.2 (97)

91 (101)

95.2 (139)

Length of stay (days) (median (Q1–Q3))

     

   Intensive care unit

6 (2–18)

5 (2–11)

4 (1–9.5)

12 (3–26)

6 (2–19)

   Hospital

22 (14–40)

19 (11–33)

20 (13.5–34)

29 (17–53)

23 (14–36.8)

Mortality (% (n))

     

   Intensive care unit

12.1 (55)

18.3 (17)

6.8 (7)

10.8 (12)

13 (19)

   Hospital

15.7 (71)

21.5 (20)

8.7 (9)

16.2 (18)

16.4 (24)

  1. Data are presented as median values (25th (Q1) and 75th (Q3) percentiles) or percentages. SAPS, Score Simplified Acute Physiology, SOFA, System Organ Failure Assessment; TISS Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System (TISS-28).
  2. aFor example, intubation, catheterizations, renal replacement therapy and mechanical ventilation.
  3. bAll diagnostic procedures including imaging, laboratory tests and microbiologic analysis.
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