Table 1.
Patient demographics and outcome parameters in comparison between QI adherence groups
| All patients | LAG QI <65% |
HAG QI ≥65% |
P value | |
| n=583 | n=378 | n=205 | ||
| Demographics | ||||
| Age (years) | 57 (40; 70) | 57 (40; 70) | 55 (42; 69) | 0.770 |
| Gender (male) | 377 (64.7%) | 233 (61.6%) | 144 (70.2%) | 0.038 |
| ICU score on admission | ||||
| APACHE II | 21 (14;27) | 21 (15;27) | 21 (14;27) | 0.986 |
| SAPS II | 47 (34;61) | 47 (35;60) | 47 (34;62) | 0.860 |
| SOFA | 9 (7;12) | 9 (7;12) | 9 (7;13) | 0.526 |
| Average SOFA | 8.2 (6.6;10.3) | 8 (6.5;10.1) | 8.4 (6.8;10.7) | 0.140 |
| Type of admission to Study-ICU | 0.651 | |||
| Medical | 290 (49.7%) | 190 (50.3%) | 100 (48.8%) | |
| Emergency surgery | 232 (39.8%) | 146 (38.6%) | 86 (41.9%) | |
| Elective surgery | 61 (10.5%) | 42 (11.1%) | 19 (9.3%) | |
| Outcome parameter | ||||
| Duration of Ventilation Study-ICU (hour) | 431 (250;709) | 476 (248;769) | 389 (247;608) | <0.001 |
| Total duration of ventilation hospital (hour) | 578 (338;924) | 597 (310;992) | 535 (361;821) | 0.017 |
| No spontaneous breathing trials | 1 (0;2) | 1 (0;2) | 1 (0;2) | 0.456 |
| No reintubation | 0 (0;1) | 0 (0;1) | 0 (0;1) | 0.531 |
| Type of discharge of study-ICU | <0.001 | |||
| ICU | 161 (27.6%) | 100 (26.5%) | 61 (29.8%) | |
| Intermediate/ward | 260 (44.6%) | 172 (45.5%) | 88 (42.9%) | |
| Rehabilitation | 110 (18.9%) | 56 (14.8%) | 54 (26.3%) | |
| ICU mortality | 52 (8.9%) | 50 (13.2%) | 2 (1.0%) | |
| LOS Study-ICU (days) | 19 (11;32) | 21 12;35) | 16 (11;25) | <0.001 |
| LOS hospital (days) | 33 (20;54) | 36 (22;61) | 26 (18;48) | 0.001 |
| Profit (€) | −2999 (−15 946; 7730) | −3696 (−21 170; 6828) | −1030 (−11 134; 9449) | <0.001 |
Discrete variables are presented as a total number of encounters and were analysed with χ2 test for non-parametric samples.
APACHE II, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II; HAG, high adherence group; ICU, Intensive care unit; LAG, low adherence group; LOS, Length of stay; QI, quality indicator; SAPS, Simplified Acute Physiology Score; SOFA, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment.