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Table 1 Baseline patient characteristics

From: One-year resource utilisation, costs and quality of life in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS): secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial

Characteristic

All patients (N = 795)

1-year survivors (N = 388)

1-year non-survivors (N = 407)

P value

Age—years [SD]

55.4 [16.8]

50.2 [15.6]

60.4 [16.4]

<0.001

Female—no. (%)

300 (37.7)

148 (38.1)

152 (37.4)

0.8168

APACHE II score [SD]a

21.8 [6.1]

20.3 [5.7]

23.2 [6.0]

<0.001

PaO2:FiO2 ratio—KPa [SD]

15.1 [5.0]

16.0 [5.2]

14.2 [4.6]

<0.001

Prime condition: Pneumonia/pneumonitis—no. (%)

466 (58.6)

220 (56.7)

246 (60.4)

0.2849

Surgery admission—no. (%)

108 (13.6)

64 (16.5)

44 (10.8)

0.0194

ICU length of stay—days [SD]

17.0 [16.5]

19.7 [15.5]

14.4 [16.9]

<0.001

Hospital length of stay—days [SD]b

33.6 [43.1]

47.2 [48.6]

20.9 [32.3]

<0.001

  1. APACHE Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation, FiO2 fraction of inspired oxygen and PaO2 partial pressure of arterial oxygen
  2. aAPACHE II score calculated for 765 patients only
  3. bFive patients with missing information on hospital discharge