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Table 3 Summary of predicted, crude and adjusted intensive care unit and hospital mortalities

From: Very old patients admitted to intensive care in Australia and New Zealand: a multi-centre cohort analysis

Age strata

Crude mortality (%)

Predicted mortality (%)

ICU mortality (odds ratio (95% confidence interval))

Hospital mortality (odds ratio (95% confidence interval))

 

ICU

Hospital

APACHE II

APACHE III

Crude

Adjusteda

Crude

Adjustedb

18 to 40 yearsc

5.6

7.1

14.6

10.1

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

40.1 to 64.9 years

7.6

11.4

22.5

15.3

1.39 (1.3 to 1.5)

1.44 (1.3 to 1.6)

1.69 (1.6 to 1.8)

1.77 (1.6 to 1.9)

65 to 79.9 years

9.8

16.6

30.1

21.7

1.85 (1.7 to 2.0)

2.13 (1.9 to 2.3)

2.62 (2.5 to 2.8)

3.17 (2.9 to 3.4)

≥ 80 years

12.0

24.0

32.7

25.3

2.30 (2.1 to 2.5)

2.70 (2.4 to 3.0)

4.16 (3.9 to 4.5)

5.37 (4.9 to 5.9)

  1. APACHE, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; ICU, intensive care unit. aGoodness of fit, P = 1.0; area under the receiver operator characteristic curve = 0.87. bGoodness of fit, P = 1.0; area under the receiver operator characteristic curve = 0.85. cReference variable.
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