Table 2:
Derivation Cohort Patient Characteristics by Hospital Sepsis Capability Categories
| Sepsis Capability Categories (n of hospitals) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | Total182 | High 61 (33.5) | Intermediate 60 (33.0) | Low 61 (33.5) | Standardized Differences |
| Sepsis cases, n (%) | 89,069 (100) | 60,212 (67.6) | 23,474 (26.4) | 5383 (6.0) | |
| Age, years, mean (SD) | 69.2 (15.1) | 68.7 (15.3) | 70.2 (14.5) | 69.7 (14.7) | 0.10 |
| Female (%) a | 47.8 | 47.4 | 48.5 | 48.3 | 0.02 |
| Race (%) | 0.77 | ||||
| White | 61.8 | 57.3 | 67.2 | 88.9 | |
| Black | 14.5 | 15.1 | 15.23 | 4.6 | |
| Hispanic | 10.3 | 12.0 | 7.6 | 2.7 | |
| Other | 13.4 | 15.6 | 10.0 | 3.8 | |
| Surgical Interventions (%) | 30.5 | 32.6 | 27.6 | 18.7 | 0.32 |
| Severe Sepsis code R6520 (%) | 55.3 | 56.4 | 53.6 | 49.7 | 0.14 |
| Community Sepsis (%) | 77.8 | 74.3 | 83.5 | 91.6 | 0.47 |
| Elixhauser Index, mean (SD) | 6.29 (2.77) | 6.33 (2.78) | 6.29 (2.76) | 5.83 (2.76) | 0.18 |
| Organ Dysfunction (%) | |||||
| Cardiovascular | 61.9 | 62.9 | 60.4 | 57.2 | 0.12 |
| Respiratory | 42.4 | 43.0 | 41.3 | 39.5 | 0.07 |
| Renal | 58.8 | 59.3 | 58.9 | 52.7 | 0.13 |
| Neurologic | 15.6 | 15.7 | 15.1 | 16.4 | 0.04 |
| Hematologic | 14.5 | 15.0 | 14.2 | 10.1 | 0.15 |
| Hepatic | 5.6 | 6.0 | 5.1 | 3.0 | 0.15 |
| Number of Organ Dysfunction (%) | 0.23 | ||||
| Any 1 | 40.1 | 39.0 | 41.4 | 46.8 | |
| Any 2 | 32.1 | 32.0 | 32.0 | 33.3 | |
| Any 3 | 18.8 | 19.3 | 18.7 | 14.9 | |
| Any 4+ | 9.0 | 9.7 | 8.0 | 5.1 | |
| Primary Payer (%) | 0.19 | ||||
| Medicare | 70.6 | 69.0 | 73.4 | 76.3 | |
| Medicaid | 13.7 | 14.3 | 12.9 | 10.1 | |
| Private insurance | 14.1 | 15.2 | 11.8 | 11.3 | |
| Other | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 2.3 | |
| Median Income in Zip Code (%) | 0.59 | ||||
| Quartile 1 | 19.7 | 19.5 | 20.1 | 19.9 | |
| Quartile 2 | 21.1 | 18.0 | 22.8 | 49.1 | |
| Quartile 3 | 23.9 | 24.9 | 22.3 | 19.4 | |
| Quartile 4 | 34.7 | 37.2 | 33.8 | 10.3 | |
| Unknown | 0.7 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.3 | |
| Transferred-Out, n (%) | 1654 (1.9) | 796 (1.3) | 548 (2.3) | 310 (5.6) | 0.24 |
SD = Standard Deviation