Table 3.
Descriptive characteristics of the pre- and post-FASTHUG time frames
| 2003–2004 n = 1315 patients | 2005–2007 n = 1653 patients | p-value | |
| Age (mean ± sd) | 58.5 ± 17.9 | 59.3 ± 17.2 | 0.23 |
| Sex (%) | 0.57 | ||
| Male | 40.2 | 39.2 | |
| Female | 59.8 | 60.8 | |
| Race (%) | 0.86 | ||
| Whites | 78.9 | 79.1 | |
| Other | 21.1 | 20.9 | |
| LOS (mean ± sd) | 13.6 ± 16.1 | 12.3 ± 13.2 | 0.07 |
| SICU Days (mean) | 7.5 | 7.7 | 0.65 |
| MDC | 0.91 | ||
| Respiratory | 7.88 | 7.14 | |
| Circulatory | 33.16 | 32.39 | |
| Digestive | 12.78 | 14.10 | |
| Kidney/Urology | 12.85 | 8.35 | |
| Nervous | 5.86 | 7.20 | |
| SOI (%) | 0.001 | ||
| Minor | 10.1 | 8.5 | |
| Moderate | 30.3 | 26.3 | |
| Major | 31.5 | 32.0 | |
| Extreme | 28.1 | 33.2 |
LOS = hospital length of stay; SICU = surgical intensive care; MDC = major diagnostic categories; and SOI = severity of illness. P-value < 0.05 is considered statistically significant.