Table 1.
Basic characteristics - all patients
| Patients with known SIRS status (N = 365) |
Unknown SIRS (N = 72) |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | N (%) or median (range) | N (%) or median (range) | |
| Male sex | 173 (47%) | 40 (56%) | 0.21 |
| Age (years) | 60 (15-96) | 50 (15-88) | 0.004 |
| Comorbidity | 135 (37%) | 26 (36%) | 0.89 |
| Malignancy | 26 (7%) | 5 (7%) | 0.96 |
| Cardiovascular | 18 (5%) | 1 (1%) | 0.18 |
| Pulmonary disease | 28 (8%) | 3 (4%) | 0.29 |
Basic characteristics among acute medical patients with and without known systemic inflammatory (SIRS) status.