Characteristics of Adult Sepsis Patients in the Intensive Care Units in a Tertiary Hospital in Jordan: An Observational Study
Table 2
Characteristics related to ICU admission and stay in the study cohort divided by outcome.
Characteristics
Entire cohort
Survivors
Nonsurvivors
-value1
N = 194
N = 159 (82.0%)
N = 35 (18.0%)
Service unit:
Surgical ICU
124 (63.9%)
103 (83.1%)
21 (16.9%)
0.698
Medical ICU
14 (7.2%)
8 (57.1%)
6 (42.9%)
0.023
Anesthesia ICU
43 (22.2%)
37 (86.0%)
6 (14.0%)
0.507
Shared among the three ICUs
13 (6.7%)
11 (84.6%)
2 (15.4%)
1.000
Admission source:
Emergency
82 (42.3%)
69 (84.1%)
13 (15.9%)
0.573
Hospital wards
26 (13.4%)
17 (65.4%)
9 (34.6%)
0.027
Operations room
76 (39.2%)
67 (88.2%)
9 (11.8%)
0.086
Dialysis unit
1 (0.5%)
0 (0%)
1 (100%)
0.180
Other
9 (4.6%)
6(66.7%)
3 (33.3%)
0.208
Reason(s) for admission:
Postoperation
79 (40.7%)
69 (87.3%)
10 (12.7%)
0.129
Bowel obstruction
19 (9.8%)
16 (84.2%)
3 (15.8%)
1.000
Due to sepsis
21 (10.8%)
10 (47.6%)
11 (52.4%)
<0.001
Lower limb ischemia
6 (3.1%)
4 (66.7%)
2 (33.3%)
0.296
Renal disease
30 (15.5%)
18 (60%)
12 (40%)
0.002
LOS in days:
Hospital LOS
12.8 ± 13.80 (9)
13.0 ± 14.14 (9)
12.1 ± 12.27 (8)
0.288
ICU LOS
5.8 ± 6.12 (4)
5.3 ± 5.80 (4)
7.9 ± 7.08 (5)
0.004
All results are presented as count and percent (n (%)) for categorical variables and mean ± SD (median) for continuous variables. 1Statistically significant values are shown in bold. ICU: intensive care unit, LOS: length of stay.
