Characteristics of Adult Sepsis Patients in the Intensive Care Units in a Tertiary Hospital in Jordan: An Observational Study
Table 4
Characteristics related to ICU admission and stay in sepsis and nonsepsis patients.
Characteristics
Sepsis
Nonsepsis
-value1
N = 45 (23.2%)
N = 149 (76.8%)
Service unit:
Surgical ICU
36 (80%)
88 (59.0%)
0.013
Medical ICU
6 (13.4%)
8 (5.4%)
0.096
Anesthesia ICU
2 (4.4%)
41(27.5%)
0.001
Shared among the three ICUs
1 (2.2%)
12 (8.1%)
0.306
Source of admission:
Emergency
21 (46.7%)
61 (40.9%)
0.497
Hospital wards
15 (33.4%)
11 (7.4%)
<0.001
Operations room
6 (13.3%)
70 (47.0%)
<0.001
Dialysis unit
1 (2.2%)
0 (0%)
0.232
Other
2 (4.4%)
7 (4.7%)
1.000
Main reason(s) for admission2:
Postoperative care
7 (15.6%)
72 (48.3%)
<0.001
Bowel obstruction
4 (8.9%)
15 (10.1%)
1.000
Sepsis
21 (46.7%)
0 (0%)
<0.001
Lower limb ischemia
3 (6.7%)
3 (2.0%)
0.139
Renal disease
17 (37.8%)
13 (8.7%)
<0.001
ICU outcome:
ICU mortality rate
57.8%
6.0%
<0.001
ICU LOS in days
9.4 ± 9.37 (7)
4.7 ± 4.17 (4)
<0.001
Hospital LOS in days
17.5 ± 20.23 (11)
11.4 ± 10.86 (9)
0.044
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.
