Table 1.

Characteristics of sepsis patients (for individual data see Table S1).

	Greek (GR), N = 59a		German (DE), N = 15b
Group	A	B	A	B
Number	32	27	5	10
Deaths within 28 days	0	9 (33%)	0	3 (30%)
Men	22 (69%)	21 (78%)	4 (80%)	4 (40%)
Women	10 (31%)	6 (22%)	1 (20%)	6 (60%)
Age [median (Q1;Q3)c]	78.0 (65.0; 82.0)	47.0 (33.0; 53.0)	69.0 (53.0; 70.5)	64.5 (51.2; 72.7)
Sepsis focus
– Bacteremia	9	16	0	0
– Acute pyelonephritis	14	2	0	0
– Pneumonia	5	4	0	0
– Cholangitis	2	0	0	0
– Soft tissue infection	1	0	0	0
– Abdominal infections	1	2	5	10
– Peritonitis	0	2	0	0
– Unknown	0	1	0	0
APACHE II [median (Q1;Q3)]d	17.0 (13.0; 20.5)	18.0 (14.7; 26.0)	27.0 (15.0; 30.0)	22.0 (18.8; 26.3)
SOFA [median (Q1,Q3)]d	5.0 (4.0; 7.5)	9.0 (6.0; 14.0)	11.0 (7.0; 20)	10.0 (6.0; 12.3)
Failing organs [median (range)]	1 (1–4)	2 (1–5)	4 (2–5)	4 (2–6)
Patients with ALIe	3	0	1	2
Patients with ARDSf	11	16	3	6
Pathogen identified	32 (100%)	27 (100%)	3 (40%)	7 (70%)
– Gram-positive infection only	4	3	0	1
– Gram-negative infection only	26	22	1	3
– Two gram-negative pathogens	1	1	1	0
– Gram-positive and -negative	1	1	0	2
– Fungi	0	0	1	1

^aMedical patients.

^bSurgical patients.

^cQ: quantile.

^dScore at sepsis onset.

^eALI: acute lung injury.

^fARDS: acute respiratory distress syndrome.