Table 1.

Patients’ characteristics

Characteristic		N	%
Sex	male	602	55
	female	493	45
Age (years)	≤45	68	6.2
	46-70	434	39.6
	≥71	593	54.2
Admitted from	emergency department	600	54.8
	other ICU od HDU	92	8.4
	ward	349	31.9
	other institution	52	4.7
ICU type	surgical	322	29.4
	medical	306	27.9
	neurological	322	29.4
	multidisciplinary	145	13.2
Length of hospitalization (days)	≤7	599	54.7
	8-14	206	18.8
	15-29	178	16.3
	≥30	105	9.6
Length of stay in the ICU (days)	≤7	758	69.2
	8-14	192	17.5
	15-29	105	9.6
	≥30	38	3.5
Main diagnosis at the time of death	sepsis, septic shock	499	45.6
	stroke and intracranial hemorrhage	435	39.7
	coma	248	22.6
	multiple-organ failure	155	14.2
	malignancy	114	10.4
	brain edema	49	4.5
	hemorrhagic shock	41	3.7
	cardiogenic shock	32	2.9
	multiple-trauma	23	2.1
	shock (unspecified)	18	1.6
	hypovolemic shock	7	0.6
	neurogenic shock	1	0.1
Comorbidities	respiratory	658	60.1
	cardiovascular	582	53.2
	arterial hypertension	495	45.2
	renal	410	37.4
	acute abdomen	367	33.5
	oncologic disease	293	26.8
	diabetes mellitus	275	25.1
	neurological	207	18.9
	psychiatric	104	9.5
	attempted suicide	11	1.0
Organ donor	yes	54	4.9
	no	1041	95.1

*Abbreviation: ICU – intensive care unit, HDU – high-dependency unit.