Table 3.
Patients with sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock and mortality rates in 24 intensive care units according to the type of hospital*
| Mean±SD for type of hospital |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diagnosis | university | county | city | Total | P |
| No. of patients | 3794 | 602 | 897 | 5293 | |
| No. (%) of deaths | 448 (11.8) | 69 (11.5) | 110 (12.3) | 627 (11.9) | <0.001‡ |
| Sepsis: | |||||
| No. (%) of patients | 247 (6.5) | 22 (3.6) | 9 (1.1) | 278 (5.2) | <0.001‡ |
| APACHE II score | 18.2 ± 5.2 | 16.3 ± 7.3 | 16.1 ± 5.4 | 17.9 ± 6.2 | <0.001† |
| SOFA score | 6.3 ± 1.5 | 5.2 ± 2.0 | 5.3 ± 2.2 | 6.0 ± 1.9 | <0.001† |
| No. (%) of deaths | 71 (28.7) | 7 (31.8) | 5 (55.5) | 83 (29.1) | 0.001‡ |
| Severe sepsis: | |||||
| No. (%) of patients | 157 (4.1) | 15 (2.5) | 8 (0.8) | 180 (3.4) | <0.001‡ |
| APACHE II score | 20.1 ± 4.9 | 18.8 ± 6.1 | 18.9 ± 7.4 | 19.5 ± 6.2 | <0.001† |
| SOFA score | 6.9 ± 3.4 | 6.1 ± 2.5 | 6.1 ± 3.0 | 6.8 ± 3.4 | 0.002† |
| No. (%) of deaths | 52 (33.3) | 6 (40.0) | 5 (62.5) | 63 (35.0) | <0.001‡ |
| Septic shock: | |||||
| No. (%) of patients | 111 (2.9) | 14 (2.3) | 4 (0.5) | 129 (2.4) | <0.001‡ |
| APACHE II score | 21.3 ± 4.9 | 19.9 ± 5.4 | 19.7 ± 5.0 | 21.0 ± 6.1 | 0.008† |
| SOFA score | 7.2 ± 3.1 | 7.1 ± 2.8 | 8.0 ± 4.8 | 7.3 ± 3.2 | 0.127† |
| No. (%) of deaths | 36 (32.4) | 5 (35.7) | 3 (75.0) | 44 (34.1) | 0.045‡ |
*Abbreviations: ICU – intensive care unit; APACHE – Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation score; SOFA – sequential organ failure assessment score.
†Kruskal-Wallis test, adult ICUs only.
‡χ2 test, adult ICUs only.