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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Resuscitation. 2012 Sep 25;84(5):564–568. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2012.09.024

Table 1.

Patient characteristics by outcome group.

Controls
(N=56,751)
ICU Transfer
(N=2,638)
Cardiac
Arrest
(N=109)
Mortality
(N=291)
Age, mean (SD), years 54 (18)b,c,d 60 (16)a,c,d 64 (17)a,b 66 (13)a,b
Female sex 32,189 (57%)b 1,290 (50%)a 64 (59%) 126 (53%)
Race b,c,d a a,d a,c
   Black 24,639 (43%) 1,148 (44%) 68 (62%) 114 (49%)
   White 20,250 (36%) 1,053 (40%) 24 (22%) 104 (36%)
   Other 1,461 (3%) 96 (4%) 3 (3%) 10 (3%)
   Unknown 10,401 (18%) 641 (13%) 14 (13%) 33 (11%)
Surgical patiente 19,127 (34%)b,d 1,118 (43%)a,d 36 (33%)d 45 (19%)a,b,c
Length of stay, median (IQR), days 3 (1–5)b,c,d 12 (7–21)a,c,d 11 (4–25)a,b,d 5 (3–9)a,b,c
RRT call during study period 154 (0%)b,c,d 358 (14%)a 19 (17%)a 32 (13%)a
Survived to discharge 56,751 (100%)b,c,d 2,104 (81%)a,c,d 30 (28%)a,b,d 0 (0%)a,b,c

Abbreviations: ICU, intensive care unit; SD, standard deviation; IQR, interquartile range. All results are shown as n (%) unless otherwise indicated. Controls are patients discharged without experiencing a cardiac arrest, ICU transfer, or death. N refers to number of patients in each group.

a

P-value <0.05 for comparison to controls.

b

P-value <0.05 for comparison to ICU transfer patients.

c

P-value<0.05 for comparison to cardiac arrest patients.

d

P-value<0.05 for comparison to mortality patients.

e

Surgical patients are patients who went to the operating room during their admission.