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. 2010 Mar 4;14(2):R27. doi: 10.1186/cc8898

Table 2.

Patients' characteristics, severity scores, length of ICU stay and mortality in GP, GN, GP/GN groups

GP patients' group (n = 168) GN patients' group (n = 70) GP/GN patients' group (n = 15) P value
Age (yrs), mean (SD) 56.2 (18.9) 61.7 (17.2) 60.3 (21.0) ns
Male, n (%) 118 (70.2) 48 (68.6) 9 (60.0) ns
APACHE II, mean (SD) 21.8 (9.5) 24.6 (7.4) 23.6 (10.7) <0.05a
SOFA, mean (SD) 9.53 (5.0) 10.71 (4.4) 11.66 (6.0) ns
Length of ICU stay (days), mean (SD) 18.7 (15.8) 20.5 (29.6) 16.2 (17.5) ns
Mortality, (%) 28.0 40.0 33.3 ns

GP, Gram-positive; GN, Gram-negative; GP/GN, Gram-positive and Gram-negative; APACHE-II, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation-II; SOFA, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment. aWith Mann-Whitney's U-test, between GP patients' group and GN patients' group.