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Table 1 Patients’ characteristics before and after implementation of tele-education program

From: Impact of weekly case-based tele-education on quality of care in a limited resource medical intensive care unit

Characteristics

Before

After

P value

Year

2015

2016

2017

 

Number of patients

667

595

633

 

Age

63.4 ± 16.2

62.2 ± 16.6

63.2 ± 0.37

0.238a

Male

365 (54.7%)

394 (66.2%)

387 (61%)

< 0.01b

Mechanically ventilated (invasive + noninvasive)

233 (34.9%)

162 (27.2%)

159 (25.1%)

< 0.01b

Vasopressor

246 (36.9%)

241 (40.5%)

244 (38.5%)

0.418b

Diagnosis-related group (DRG)

3.5 ± 0.25

3.2 ± 0.13

3.09 ± 0.24

< 0.01a

  1. aANOVA test
  2. bPearson χ2 test