Table 1.
Baseline characteristics
| |
Survivors |
Non-survivors |
P |
|---|---|---|---|
| n = 166 | n = 58 | ||
| Caucasian (%) |
155 (93.4) |
53 (91.4) |
0.612 |
| Male gender (%) |
98 (59.0) |
30 (51.7) |
0.333 |
| Age, years, median (IQR) |
72 (58-81) |
72 (63-80) |
0.534 |
| APACHE III score, median (IQR) |
58 (47-72) |
67 (53-80) |
0.014 |
| Admission from emergency department (%) |
101 (60.8) |
35 (60.3) |
0.947 |
| Transfer from outside facility (%) |
25 (15.4) |
6 (10.3) |
0.371 |
| Do not resuscitate in case of cardiac arrest (%) |
36 (21.7) |
15 (25.9) |
0.514 |
| Lactate, mmol/L, median (IQR) |
2.6 (1.7-3.9) |
3.02 (2.0-4.7) |
0.151 |
| Enrolled after sepsis response team implementation at study ICU (%) | 119 (71.7) | 40 (69.0) | 0.849 |
APACHE, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation score; SD, standard deviation; IQR, interquartile range.