Table 1.

Comparisons of patient characteristics among all ICU transfer patients and non- delayed (within six hours) and delayed transfers who reached the critical CART score

Characteristic	Transferred within 6 hours (n = 2055)	Transfer Delayed (n = 1734)	p-value
Age, median (IQR), years	71 (58–82)	73 (60–83)	0.002
Female sex, n (%)	1018 (49.5)	847 (48.8)	0.67
Race, n (%)			0.72
Black	467 (22.7)	374 (21.6)
White	1141 (55.5)	971 (56.0)
Other/Unknown	447 (21.8)	389 (22.4)
Surgical patient, n (%)	572 (27.8)	438 (25.2)	0.07
Hospital LOS prior to first critical eCART, median (IQR), days	1.5 (0.3–3.7)	1.6 (0.4–3.9)	0.04
Total hospital LOS*, median (IQR), days	11 (7–19)	13 (8–21)	<0.001
Died during admission, n (%)	503 (24.5)	576 (33.2)	<0.001

^*For patients who survived to hospital discharge

Abbreviations: CART, cardiac arrest risk triage; ICU, intensive care unit; IQR, interquartile range. Data shown are mean (standard deviation) unless otherwise noted. N refers to number of patients in each group