Results from the national sepsis practice survey: predictions about mortality and morbidity and recommendations for limitation of care orders

Table 2 Predicted hospital mortality, based on clinical factors in study vignettes

Vignette characteristics					Predicted 'baseline' hospital mortality
BMI	Age (years)	Co-morbidities	APACHE II Score	Number of vignettes	Median	5^th percentile to 95^th percentile range
Normal	50	None	25	285	37%	10% to 69%
Obese	50	None	25	133	42%	16% to 74%
Normal	50	Early-stage lung cancer	25	43	44%	21% to 72%
Normal	70	None	25	123	46%	15% to 74%
Obese	50	Early-stage lung cancer	25	42	49%	24% to 80%
Obese	70	None	25	130	50%	28% to 80%
Normal	70	Early-stage lung cancer	25	98	53.5%	20% to 84%
Obese	70	Early-stage lung cancer	25	287	55%	27% to 81%
All vignettes				1141	47%	17% to 78%

Respondents were asked to provide estimates of hospital mortality (see Methods for details). The median and central 90% of responses are shown based on vignette characteristics.
APACHE II = acute physiology, age and chronic health evaluation II; BMI = body mass index.

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