Table 3.
Influence of frailty on patient outcome—comparison cardiac surgery versus non-cardiac surgery/surgical ICU patients, Abbreviations: LOS-Length of stay; ICU-Intensive Care Unit, * Independent = home + rehabilitation, # Dependent = hospital, long-term- and palliative care).
| Cardiac Surgery (n = 49) | Surgical ICU Patients (n = 183) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fit/Well (n = 28) | Vulnerable/Frail (n = 21) | p-Value | Fit/Well (n = 102) | Vulnerable/Frail (n = 81) | p-Value | |
| ICU-LOS | ||||||
| Index ICU-LOS | 3.5 (2.0, 7.0) | 2.8 (2.0, 3.2) | 0.28 | 5.1 (3.0, 10.8) | 5.2 (3.0, 9.8) | 1.00 |
| Total ICU-LOS | 3.5 (2.0, 7.5] | 2.8 (2.0, 3.2) | 0.27 | 5.6 (3.1, 12.4) | 5.5 (3.1, 10.0) | 0.81 |
| Hospital-LOS | 13.2 (9.0, 21.7) | 11.0 (9.1, 15.1) | 0.48 | 23.2 (12.9, 44.1) | 26.3 (13.6, 43.4) | 0.77 |
| Mortality | ||||||
| Hospital | 0 (0%) | 1 (4.8%) | 0.24 | 20 (19.6%) | 21 (25.9%) | 0.31 |
| 12 months | 2 (7.1%) | 2 (9.5%) | 0.76 | 29 (28.4%) | 37 (45.7%) | 0.02 |
| Discharge location | ||||||
| Independent * | 14 (50.0%) | 10 (47.6%) | 1.00 | 45 (44.1%) | 22 (27.2%) | 0.03 |
| Dependent # | 14 (50.0%) | 10 (47.6%) | 37 (36.3%) | 38 (46.9%) | ||