TABLE 3.
Medians (interquartile range (IQR)) or frequency (per cent) for outcomes by frailty
| Outcome |
CFS = 1–2 N=354 |
CFS = 3
N=491 |
CFS = 4
N=314 |
CFS = 5
N=259 |
CFS = 6
N=317 |
CFS = 7–9 N=297 |
p |
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| Length of stayb | 6 (4–11) | 8 (5–18) | 14 (7–26) | 17 (8–33) | 19 (10–39) | 18 (10–35) | <.001a (<.001, <.001) |
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| ICU admission | 99 (27.9%) | 157 (32.0%) | 96 (30.5%) | 39 (15.0%) | 36 (11.4%) | 21 (7.0%) | <.001 |
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| Mechanical ventilation | 57 (16.0%) | 92 (18.8%) | 54 (17.3%) | 20 (7.6%) | 14 (4.3%) | 11 (3.8%) | <.001 |
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| Death | 10 (2.9%) | 36 (7.4%) | 49 (15.4%) | 51 (19.5%) | 77 (24.1%) | 114 (38.3%) | <.001 |
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| Goals of Care: | <.001 | ||||||
| Full resuscitation | 337 (95.3%) | 399 (81.3) | 176 (56.0%) | 93 (35.8%) | 77 (24.1%) | 36 (12.1%) | |
| Escalation of care with exceptions | 7 (1.8%) | 36 (7.4%) | 41 (13.0%) | 39 (15.1%) | 44 (14.0%) | 23 (7.8%) | |
| Ward based medical care, but no CPR, ICU, or intubation | 7 (2.0%) | 47 (9.5%) | 77 (24.6%) | 94 (36.3%) | 108 (34.0%) | 122 (40.9%) | |
| Comfort Care | 12 (1.5%) | 20 (6.4%) | 33 (12.7%) | 88 (27.8%) | 116 (39.2%) | ||
a
No known pooling method for test between medians. We present the median and IQR range of p values over the 100 multiply imputed datasets.
b
For length of stay, only those whose admission date was not more than seven days prior to symptom onset were included (N = 1,593).