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. 2014 May 21;14:226. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-226

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of patients in model training and testing data sets

  Training data (10,745,181 admissions)
Test data (987,079 admissions)
% of training data Death rates % of test data Death rates
Age distribution
 
 
 
 
[0–5]
10.2%
0.3%
8.3%
0.2%
[6-15]
4.4%
0.1%
3.6%
0.1%
[16–35]
21.9%
0.1%
18.6%
0.1%
[36–55]
25.2%
0.5%
23.3%
0.4%
[56–65]
13.5%
1.4%
14.8%
1.0%
[66–75]
12.8%
2.8%
14.8%
1.7%
[76–85]
9.9%
6.1%
13.0%
3.5%
> = 85
2.2%
19.6%
3.7%
9.5%
Charlson score of comorbidity
 
 
 
 
Zero to mild (0)
68.6%
0.2%
65.5%
0.2%
Mild [1,2]
20.0%
2.7%
20.2%
1.7%
Moderate [3,4]
6.8%
5.7%
8.5%
3.5%
Severe [> = 5]
4.5%
14.7%
5.8%
10.1%
Gender
 
 
 
 
Female
54.7%
1.5%
53.6%
1.1%
Male
45.3%
2.1%
46.4%
1.6%
Overall death rates
1.8%
 
1.3%
 
LOS
 
 
 
 
Mean/Std. deviation
3.21/11.42
 
2.75/5.134
 
Median
1.00
 
1.00
 
Range
599
 
171
 
Interquartile range 2   1