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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Crit Care. 2014 May 28;29(5):780–785. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2014.05.009

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics.

Total Medical Surgical Trauma Cardiac Neurologic
Patients 9120 4507 1289 2733 386 205
Total SOFA Score 5 (3–8) 6 (3–9) 5 (4–8) 4 (3–7) 7 (5–11) 6 (3–8)
  Liver 0 (0–1) 0 (0–1) 0 (0–2) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–1) 0 (0–0)
  Renal 0 (0–1) 1 (0–2) 0 (0–1) 0 (0–1) 1 (0–2) 0 (0–1)
  Coagulation 0 (0–1) 0 (0–1) 0 (0–1) 0 (0–1) 0 (0–1) 0 (0–1)
  CNS 1 (0–3) 1 (0–2) 1 (0–2) 1 (0–3) 1 (0–4) 2 (1–3.25)
  Cardiovascular 1 (1–1) 1 (1–1) 1 (1–1) 1 (0–1) 1 (1–2) 1 (0–1)
  Respiratory 2 (1–2) 2 (1–2) 2 (1–2) 2 (1–2) 2 (2–3) 2 (1–2)
30-day Mortality 1086 (12%) 559 (12%) 82 (6%) 295 (11%) 115 (30%) 35 (17%)
Age (years) 54 (±20) 56 (±19) 59 (±17) 49 (±22) 61 (±18) 54 (±18)
Elixhauser Score 3.3 (2.3) 4.1 (2.2) 3.4 (2.3) 1.9 (1.7) 4.6 (2.2) 3.6 (2.3)
% Receiving Vasopressors for >1 hr 1328 (15%) 846 (19%) 119 (15%) 233 (14%) 113 (16%) 17 (19%)
% Mechanically Ventilated 2098 (23%) 876 (23%) 306 (25%) 688 (22%) 164 (25%) 64 (31%)
% on Hemodialysis 329 (4%) 237 (5%) 33 (3%) 22 (1%) 32 (8%) 5 (2%)
Female sex 4115 (45%) 2265 (50%) 675 (52%) 885 (32%) 196 (51%) 94 (46%)
Race:
  American Indian/ Alaskan Native 55 (1%) 22 (0%) 7 (1%) 22 (1%) 3 (1%) 1 (0%)
  Asian/Pacific Island 291 (3%) 146 (3%) 32 (2%) 92 (3%) 10 (3%) 11 (5%)
  Black 140 (2%) 57 (1%) 11 (1%) 57 (2%) 9 (2%) 6 (3%)
  Hispanic 627 (7%) 282 (6%) 66 (5%) 231 (8%) 29 (8%) 19 (9%)
  Other 65 (1%) 40 (1%) 5 (0%) 19 (1%) 1 (0%) 0 (0%)
  Unknown 409 (4%) 126 (3%) 13 (1%) 251 (9%) 12 (3%) 7 (3%)
  White 7533 (83%) 3834 (85%) 1155 (90%) 2061 (75%) 322 (83%) 161 (79%)

Legend: Descriptive statistics organized by diagnostic group. Data reported as mean (standard deviation), median (25%–75% interquartile range) or count (percentage of total). Each group was statistically different from one another in all variables with a p<0.01.