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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2014 May;42(5):1221–1231. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000138

Table 4.

Demographics and outcome of propensity matched patients.

Control Hypoglycemia p value Standardized

difference (%)
n (N=166) (N=166)  
Gender male n (%) 111 (66.9) 110 (66.3) 0.91 −1.27
Age at admit (years) 8.3± 5.4 7.6 ± 5.6 0.28 −11.8
Type of burn 0.99
Flame n (%) 131 (78.9) 130 (78.3)
Electrical n (%) 12 (7.2) 9 (5.4)
Scald n (%) 21 (12.7) 24 (14.5)
Metabolic n (%) 2 (1.2) 2 (1.2)
Other n (%) 0 1 (0.6)
Burn size
% TBSA burn (total) 63.5 ± 17.3 63.0 ± 16.9 0.61 −3.0
% TBSA third degree 49.5 ± 25.2 50.3 ± 25.5 0.56 3.2
Time from burn to admit 2 (1–4) 2(1–4) 0.65 −6.7
Inhalation Injury n (%) 81 (48.8) 80 (48.2) 0.90 −1.2
Clinical outcomes
Number OR visits 4 (2–6) 5 (3–7) 0.0018
Time between OR (days) 5.3 ± 1.9 5.0 ± 1.7 0.067
LOS ICU (days) 30 (19–45) 32 (22–50) 0.074
LOS/TBSA 0.57± 0.38 0.62 ± 0.39 0.058
Mortality n (%) 11 (6.6) 34 (20.5) 0.0002
Max DENVER2 3.6 ± 1.3 4.6 ± 2.1 <0.0001
MOF n (%) 30 (18.1) 71 (42.8) <0.0001
Sepsis n (%) 16 (9.6) 30 (18.1) 0.020
Number Infections 0 (0–3) 1 (0–3) 0.16