Table 1.
Comparison of activity data and quality indicators during the COVID-19 period and two previous non COVID-19 periods.
| ICU periods | Covid period |
Non Covid periods |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 14 March–30 April |
2019 14 March–30 April |
2019/2020 14 March 2019 −13 March 2020 |
||
| New ICU admissions | 31 | 71 | 549 | |
| Bed occupancy (%) | 83,5 | 66,5 | 71,6 | P < 0,05 |
| Female n (%) | 11 (35,4) | 28 (39,4) | 201 (36,6) | NS (p < 0,01) |
| Age (year) | 56/67/73 # | 59/69/77 # | 58/70/79 # | NS (p < 0,01) |
| ICU LOS (days) | 2/6/15 # | 2/3/7 # | 1/3/6 # | P < 0,05 |
| SAPS 3 score on ICU admission | 46/57/63 # | 36/43/59 # | 36/46/60 # | P < 0,05 |
| SOFA score on ICU day 1 | 1/4/7 # | 0/2/5* # | 0/2/5° # | *NS(p < 0,01)/°P < 0.05 |
| ICU mortality (%) | 18.8 | 11.8 | 10.7 | NS (0,118) |
| Duration of Mechanical Ventilation (days) | 2/11/24 # | 1/2/9 # | 1/3/8 # | P < 0.05 |
| Use of Renal Replacement Therapy (% patients) | 3 (9,4) | 5 (6,6) | 27 (4,9) | P < 0.05 |
| NAS | 71/87/96 # | 50/59/72 # | 54/65/78 # | P < 0.05 |
| VAP (episodes/1000 days under artificial ventilation) | 40,7 | 4,9 | 7,5 | P < 0.05 |
| CLABSI (episodes/1000 days with central venous catheter) | 2,8 | 0 | 0 | P < 0.05 |
| ICU Readmission <48 h (%) | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | P < 0.05 |
| Adverse events | 22 | 7 | 79 | P < 0.05 |
| SMR | 1.05 | 0.88 | 0.7 | P < 0.05 |
Comparison of ICU patients characteristics, use of artificial ventilatory support and renal replacement therapy, NAS results, mortality and ICU quality indicators in COVID-19 patients (COVID-19 period between 14 March and 30 April 2020) with non COVID-19 patients during the same period in 2019 (14 March and 30 April 2019) and during one year (between 14 March 2019 and 13 March 2020) registration.
Data are expressed as values for centiles 25, 50 (median) and 75 or number with absolute frequency (%). # Percentiles 25/50/75.
Statistical analysis compares the COVID-19 period data with two non COVID-19 periods. For SOFA score only statistical significance is different between the two non COVID periods compared with the COVID-19 period.
LOS (length of ICU stay); SAPS score (Simplify acute physiology score); SOFA score (Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score); NAS (Nursing Activities Score); VAP (ventilator associated pneumonia); CLABSI (Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infection); SMR (Standardised mortality ratio).