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Table 1 Characteristics of patients admitted to ICU of Tertiary Hospital

From: Survival of patients transferred to tertiary intensive care from rural community hospitals

 

From outside

From within

 
 

tertiary hospital

tertiary hospital

P

Sample size (n)

147

178

 

Mean age (y)

53.4 (± 17.4)

59.5 (± 17.3)

0.005

Sex (% female)

43

45

0.70

Mean APACHE II score,

16.6 (± 7.9)

17.5 (± 6.5)

0.24

ICU day 1

   

Mean TISS score,

25.0 (± 6.1)

25.3 (± 7.1)

0.76

ICU day 1

   

Medical patients

62 %

60 %

0.74

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