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. 2001 May 26;322(7297):1274. doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7297.1274

Table 2.

Demographic characteristics and clinical features of survivors of intensive care for three datasets. Figure are number (percentage) of patients, median (range), or mean (SD)

A—Guy's development set
B—Guy's validation set
C—RIP users group*
P value for A v B
P value for A v C
Ward deaths (n=200) Hospital survivors (n=5275) P value Ward deaths (n=49) Hospital survivors (n=1087) P value Ward deaths (n=909) Hospital survivors (n=6404) P value Ward deaths Hospital survivors Ward deaths Hospital survivors
Median age (years) 67 (31-93) 62 (17-101) 0.0001 70 (27-84) 62 (16-90) 0.0001 72 (16-96) 63 (16-96) 0.0001 0.089 0.579 0.0001 0.251
Men 130 (65) 3676 (70) 0.158 32 (65) 727 (67) 0.819 507 (56) 3882 (61) 0.005 0.968 0.068 0.017 0.0001
Patients with chronic ill health 79 (40) 1173 (22) 0.0001 22 (45) 235 (22) 0.0001 244 (27) 893 (14) 0.0001 0.490 0.655 0.0001 0.0001
Mean day 1 APACHE II score 19.1 (6.9) 13.5 (5.3) 0.0001 20.2 (6.1) 14.8 (6.0) 0.0001 17.3 (6.7) 11.5 (5.9) 0.0001 0.244 0.0001 0.0001 0.0001
Mean last APACHE II score 15.8 (6.1) 11.9 (4.5) 0.0001 16.9 (5.1) 12.2 (22.2) 0.0001 15.7 (6.6) 9.8 (5.2) 0.0001 0.145 0.066 0.759 0.0001
Mean day 1 risk of death 30.4 (22.6) 11.2 (12.8) 0.0001 37.3 (21.0) 17.6 (17.3) 0.0001 29.3 (20.7) 13.7 (14.2) 0.0001 0.030 0.0001 0.855 0.0001
Mean day 1 APP 13.4 (6.1) 9.6 (4.6) 0.0001 13.7 (5.5) 10.7 (5.2) 0.0001 11.5 (6.5) 7.7 (5.2) 0.0001 0.559 0.0001 0.0001 0.0001
Mean last APP 10.1 (5.5) 8.0 (3.7) 0.0001 10.5 (4.6) 8.1(3.8) 0.0001 9.9 (6.4) 5.9 (4.4) 0.0001 0.514 0.385 0.285 0.0001
Mean day 1 OFS 19.6 (7.3) 13.7 (5.5) 0.0001 20.0 (7.4) 14.0 (7.0) 0.0001 17.8 (7.1) 11.7 (6.2) 0.0001 0.415 0.032 0.001 0.0001
Mean last OFS 16.1 (6.4) 12.0 (4.6) 0.0001 17.3 (5.3) 11.9 (5.3) 0.0001 16.1 (7.0) 9.9 (5.4) 0.0001 0.139 0.944 0.869 0.0001
Patients with ⩾1 organs in failure at ICU discharge 88 (44) 1252 (24) 0.0001 26 (53) 333 (31) 0.01 495 (54) 2319 (36) 0.0001 0.558 0.0001 0.003 0.0001
Median day 1 TISS points 34 (4-78) 33 (3-89) 0.187 37 (2-93) 43 (20-74) 0.0001 33 (2-79) 28 (2-93) 0.0001 0.0001 0.0001 0.216 0.0001
Median last TISS points 28 (4-54) 31 (2-79) 0.0001 33 (20-65) 34 (2-75) 0.502 28 (1-75) 23 (1-79) 0.0001 0.0001 0.0001 0.155 0.0001
Cadiothoracic patients 30 (15) 3103 (59) 0.0001 1 (2) 343 (32) 0.0001 7 (1) 193 (3) 0.0001 0.014 0.0001 0.0001 0.0001
Ventilated patients 136 (68) 4244 (81) 0.0001 45 (92) 960 (88) 0.450 498 (55) 2658 (42) 0.0001 0.001 0.0001 0.0001 0.0001
Median ventilated days 3 (0-52) 1 (1-260) 0.0001 7 (1-87) 1 (1-73) 0.0001 3 (1-53) 2 (1-198) 0.0001 0.0001 0.0001 0.096 0.0001
Dialysed patients 42 (21) 247 (5) 0.0001 23 (47) 138 (13) 0.0001 31 (3) 116 (2) 0.001 0.0001 0.0001 0.0001 0.0001
Median dialysis days 4 (1-34) 4 (1-57) 0.355 9 (1-45) 4 (1-57) 0.059 4 (1-28) 4 (1-75) 0.785 0.233 0.143 0.424 0.976
Median length of ICU stay 3 (1-64) 1 (1-283) 0.0001 8 (2-112) 3 (2-79) 0.0001 3 (1-54) 2 (1-219) 0.0001 0.0001 0.0001 0.205 0.0001
Median length of hospital stay 10 (0-303) 7 (0-677) 0.0001 10 (1-127) 6 (0-281) 0.049 6 (0-256) 9 (0-270) 0.0001 0.849 0.0001 0.0001 0.0001

APP=acute physiology points, OFS=organ failure score, TISS=therapeutic intervention score, RIP=Riyadh ICU program.