Table 2

Patient characteristics

N
179
Age
62 (51 to 72)
Male sex
109 (61 %)
Reason of admission

     Abdominal surgery
87 (49 %)
     Vascular surgery
24 (13 %)
     Trauma
17 (9.5 %)
     Liver transplant
14 (7.8 %)
     Miscellaneous
37 (21 %)
APACHE II
14 (11 to 19)
History of diabetes
26 (14.5 %)
Length of stay at the ICU (days)
1.6 (0.8 to 4.7)
Mortality at the ICU
19 (10.6 %)
Hospital mortality
26 (14.5 %)

Patient characteristics of all patients treated from January 1st to May 1st, 2005.

Vogelzang et al. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2005 5:38   doi:10.1186/1472-6947-5-38