Table 4.
Demographic data, diagnosis of influenza (primary/sary), pneumonia, chronic diseases or risk factors for complications and mortality of patients with pandemic influenza treated in intensive care unites (ICU) and non-ICU departments of Slovene hospitals
| No. (%) or median (range) of patients treated in |
Statistics* |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Patient characteristic | non-ICU (n = 693) | ICU (n = 55) | P |
| Sex-male |
364 (53) |
37 (67) |
0.034 |
| Age (years) |
10 (0-87) |
62 (3-88) |
<0.001 |
| Influenza (primary diagnosis) |
513 (74) |
32 (42) |
<0.001 |
| Influenza-associated pneumonia |
218 (31) |
39 (71) |
<0.001 |
| Pneumonia not caused by influenza virus |
88 (13) |
18 (33) |
<0.001 |
| Absence of chronic illness, risk factors |
518 (75) |
19 (35) |
<0.001 |
| Outcome-death | 6 (0.9) | 15 (27) | <0.001 |
*χ2 test for categorical variables and the Mann-Whitney U test for continuous variables.