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Descriptive characteristics of the pre- and post-FASTHUG time frames |
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| 2003–2004 n = 1315 patients |
2005–2007 n = 1653 patients |
p-value |
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| Age (mean ± sd) |
58.5 ± 17.9 |
59.3 ± 17.2 |
0.23 |
| Sex (%) |
0.57 |
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| Male |
40.2 |
39.2 |
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| Female |
59.8 |
60.8 |
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| Race (%) |
0.86 |
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| Whites |
78.9 |
79.1 |
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| Other |
21.1 |
20.9 |
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| LOS (mean ± sd) |
13.6 ± 16.1 |
12.3 ± 13.2 |
0.07 |
| SICU Days (mean) |
7.5 |
7.7 |
0.65 |
| MDC |
0.91 |
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| Respiratory |
7.88 |
7.14 |
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| Circulatory |
33.16 |
32.39 |
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| Digestive |
12.78 |
14.10 |
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| Kidney/Urology |
12.85 |
8.35 |
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| Nervous |
5.86 |
7.20 |
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| SOI (%) |
0.001 |
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| Minor |
10.1 |
8.5 |
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| Moderate |
30.3 |
26.3 |
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| Major |
31.5 |
32.0 |
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| Extreme |
28.1 |
33.2 |
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LOS = hospital length of stay; SICU = surgical intensive care; MDC = major diagnostic categories; and SOI = severity of illness. P-value < 0.05 is considered statistically significant. | |||
Papadimos et al. Patient Safety in Surgery 2008 2:3 doi:10.1186/1754-9493-2-3 |
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