| (n = 42,040) |
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Median age in years (IQR) | 65 (54 to 75) |
Male (%) | 23,832 (56.7) |
Mechanical ventilation in the first 24Â h of admission (%) | 14,810 (35.2) |
Vasoactive medication (%) | 11,183 (26.6) |
Planned admission (%) | 12,918 (30.7) |
Readmissions (%) | 3463 (8.2) |
Readmissions within 48Â h of ICU discharge (%) | 1216 (2.9) |
Length of stay | |
 Median intensive care length of stay in days (IQR) | 1.0 (0.80 to 2.9) |
 Median hospital length of stay in days (IQR) | 11.0 (6.0 to 20.0) |
Mortality | |
 Post-ICU in-hospital mortality rate (%) | 2811 (6.7) |
APACHE IV standardized mortality rate | |
 Median APACHE III score (IQR) | 49 (49 to 68) |
 Mean APACHE IV probability (SD) | 0.15 (0.19) |
 APACHE IV standardized mortality rate (95% CI) | 0.78 (0.77 to 0.80) |
Admission type: | |
 Medical/non-surgical (%) | 18,324 (43.6) |
 Emergency surgery (%) | 7139 (17.0) |
 Planned surgery (%) | 16,577 (39.4) |
Admission source: | |
 Operating theatre (%) | 21,694 (51.6) |
 Emergency room (%) | 8262 (19.7) |
 Ward (%) | 9477 (22.5) |
 High or medium care (%) | 159 (0.4) |
 Other hospital (%) | 630 (1.5) |
Other (%) | 1818 (4.3) |
Comorbidity on admission: | |
 Confirmed infection (%) | 6300 (15.0) |
 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (%) | 1177 (2.8) |
 Dysrhythmia (%) | 3136 (7.5) |
 Acute renal failure (%) | 2658 (6.3) |
 Cardiovascular accident (%) | 1513 (3.6) |
 Gastrointestinal bleeding (%) | 977 (2.3) |
Number of chronic comorbidities: | |
 None (%) | 25,238 (60.0) |
 One (%) | 11,538 (27.4) |
 Two (%) | 4042 (9.6) |
 Three (%) | 1029 (2.4) |
 More than three (%) | 193 (0.6) |
Patients discharged to: | |
 Ward (%) | 39,493 (93.9) |
 Recovery or medium care (%) | 1239 (3.1) |
 Coronary care unit or other intensive care unit (%) | 1308 (3.0) |