Table 6.
Distribution of length of stay outcomes.
| Pre, 2011 |
Post, 2012 |
P valuea |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Percentiles, % | ICU LOS, Days | 0.06 | |
| 1st | 1 | 1 | |
| 5th | 1 | 1 | |
| 10th | 1 | 1 | |
| 25th | 2 | 2 | |
| Median, 50th | 3 | 3 | |
| 75th | 7 | 6 | |
| 90th | 13 | 12 | |
| 95th | 19 | 17 | |
| 99th | 37 | 34.5 | |
|
Percentiles, %
|
Hospital LOS, Days
|
0.005 | |
| 1st | 1 | 1 | |
| 5th | 2 | 2 | |
| 10th | 3 | 3 | |
| 25th | 5 | 5 | |
| Median, 50th | 9 | 9 | |
| 75th | 18 | 17 | |
| 90th | 32 | 31 | |
| 95th | 44 | 44 | |
| 99th | 82 | 76 | |
ICU: Intensive care unit; LOS: length of stay.
a
Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon rank sum test was used to compare the distribution of ICU and hospital LOS between the pre- and post-implementation periods.