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. 2023 Apr 14;132:4–8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2023.04.385

Table 3.

Cause of death, by location.

ICU deaths
n = 648
Non-ICU deaths
n = 101
N % N %
COVID-19 pneumonia 426 65.7% 70 69.3%
Major adverse cardiac event 45 6.9% 8 7.9%
Hospital-associated pneumonia 44 6.8% 7 6.9%
Bacteremia 42 6.5% 5 5.0%
Disseminated fungal infection 37 5.7% 2 2.0%
Thromboembolism 31 4.8% 3 3.0%
Acute ischemia or bleeding 11 1.7% 0 0.0%
Metastatic cancer 6 0.9% 2 2.0%
No consensus 4 0.6% 5 5.0%
Trauma 2 0.3% 0 0.0%

ICU, intensive care unit.

ICU deaths, deaths occurring in an intensive care unit setting; non-ICU deaths, death occurring in a non-intensive care unit setting including deaths occurring in step-down and other high-dependency units.