Table 3.
Comment documentationa for acute care patients who died versus patients who survived
| AACC index | No. of patients
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No. of comments, mean (SE)
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Mean difference (95% CI) |
P
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Power, % (effect size)c | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Died | Survived | Died | Survived | From t testb | From KS | |||
| 0 | 16 | 5783 | 1.69 (0.82) | 0.56 (0.02) | 1.1 (−0.63 to 2.9) | .19 | .25 | 42.0 (0.44) |
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| 1 | 27 | 2066 | 2.63 (0.91) | 0.85 (0.04) | 1.8 (−0.1 to 3.7) | .06 | .33 | 73.0 (0.50) |
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| 2 | 52 | 2075 | 1.92 (0.39) | 0.99 (0.04) | 0.9 (0.15 to 1.7) | .02 | .08 | 77.6 (0.38) |
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| 3 | 50 | 1836 | 2.10 (0.42) | 0.96 (0.04) | 1.14 (0.3 to 2.0) | .01 | .02 | 88.7 (0.45) |
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| 4 | 47 | 1291 | 2.13 (0.51) | 0.95 (0.05) | 1.18 (0.14 to 2.2) | .03 | .09 | 81.0 (0.43) |
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| 5 | 28 | 470 | 2.43 (0.73) | 0.92 (0.09) | 1.5 (0.003 to 3.0) | .05 | .24 | 72.5 (0.50) |
Abbreviations: AACC, age-adjusted Charlson comorbidity; KS, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test.
a
Comment documentation count is 48 hours after hospital admission. The sample size was too small for cardiac arrest patients with AACC scores of 0 to 5, so only acute care patients are included.
b
Independent samples t test (2-tailed, equal variances not assumed).
c
Post-hoc power analysis for t test.