Table 2.

Baseline characteristics of elderly patients with sepsis.

	Death	Survival	p
Number	2845	15677
Age	77.21 (68.84, 84.76)	74.14 (67.01, 82.24)	<0.001
Male	1537	8818	0.028
Duration of ICU stay	6.67 ± 7.10	4.62 ± 5.94	<0.001
Duration of hospital stay	12.07 ± 14.84	12.03 ± 12.06	<0.001
Scoring systems
SOFA score	8.97 ± 4.13	5.88 ± 3.17	<0.001
APS III	78.95 ± 27.71	50.74 ± 20.85	<0.001
SIRS score	3.08 ± 0.80	2.84 ± 0.88	<0.001
OASIS	42.03 ± 8.95	34.10 ± 8.46	<0.001
LODS	8.80 ± 3.58	5.28 ± 2.93	<0.001