Table 1.

Patient demographic information.

Variable	Death (n = 1352)	Survival (n = 2585)	P value
Gender
Female	578 (42.8%)	1147 (44.4%)	.344
Male	774 (57.2%)	1438 (55.6%)	.344
Age (y) (mean, SD)	68.9 ± 14.9	65.5 ± 16.7	<.01
Ethnicity
Caucasian	950 (70.3%)	1894 (73.3%)	.047
Hispanic	37 (2.7%)	90 (3.5%)	.218
African American	109 (8.1%)	246 (9.5%)	.143
Other	256 (18.9%)	355 (13.7%)	<.01
ICU days (mean, SD)	17.4 ± 18.1	18.2 ± 16.5	.176

Death = death of septic patients during hospitalization.