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Baseline characteristics and outcome of the patients with blood stream infection according to the sepsis type (i.e. primary or secondary sepsis). |
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| Mean (SD) or number (%) |
Primary sepsis n = 117 |
Secondary sepsis n = 62 |
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| Age (year-old) |
64.9 (14.9) |
65.8 (14.0) |
0.690 |
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| Female/Male |
49 (41.9)/68 (58.1) |
25 (40.3)/37 (59.7) |
0.966 |
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| Medical/surgical admission |
104 (88.9)/13 (11.1) |
49 (79.0)/13 (21.0) |
0.119 |
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| SAPS II |
47.9 (19.3) |
49.1 (18.6) |
0.673 |
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| ICU mortality |
34.2% |
46.8% |
0.137 |
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SAPS: Simplified Acute Physiologic Score; ICU: Intensive Care Unit. | |||
Charles et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2008 8:163 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-8-163 |
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