Table 1.
Patient characteristics.
| All (n = 229) |
2009 (n = 123) |
2019 (n = 106) |
p Value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age, years, mean (±SD) | 69.45 | (±14.47) | 71.05 | (±13.98) | 67.59 | (±14.88) | 0.060 |
| Gender, male, n (%) | 140 | (61.1) | 77 | (62.6) | 63 | (59.4) | 0.624 |
| Urgency of admission, n (%) | |||||||
| Elective | 52 | (22.7) | 31 | (25.2) | 21 | (19.8) | 0.063 |
| Unplanned | 44 | (19.2) | 29 | (23.6) | 15 | (14.2) | |
| Emergency | 133 | (58.1) | 63 | (51.2) | 70 | (66.0) | |
| Severity Scores, mean (±SD) | |||||||
| APACHE II | 30.30 | (8.36) | 31.00 | (8.06) | 29.49 | (8.66) | 0.198 |
| SAPS2 | 61.76 | (17.73) | 62.76 | (17.19) | 60.59 | (18.34) | 0.244 |
| ICU-LOS, days, mean (±SD) | 14.30 | (24.01) | 13.87 | (20.00) | 14.80 | (28.05) | 0.868 |