Table 1.
Patient characteristics
| Patient characteristics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| characteristic | bacterial meningitis | viral meningoencephalitis | leptomeningeal metastases | p |
| no. of patients | 90 | 117 | 36 | |
| mean age in years (SD) | 48.1 (19.5) | 39.8 (17) | 52.8 (12) | p < 0.001 |
| length of stay in days (SD) | 19.3 (23) | 10.6 (19.4) | 17.3 (17.9) | p = ns |
| female patients (%) | 41.1 | 40.3 | 50 | p = ns |
| GOS (%) | p < 0.001 | |||
| 5 (fully independent) | 67.8 | 94 | 13.9 | |
| 4 (moderate disability) | 15.6 | 5.1 | 25 | |
| 3 (severe disability) | 6.7 | 0 | 19.4 | |
| 2 (persistent vegetative state) | 2.2 | 0.9 | 5.6 | |
| 1 (dead) | 7.8 | 0 | 36.1 | |
| confirmed etiology (%) | 62.2 | 17.1 | 100 | p < 0.001 |