Table 2 Characteristics of patients in the study population
From: Temporal trends in the systemic inflammatory response syndrome, sepsis, and medical coding of sepsis
Characteristic | All N = 62,261 | Any SIRS N = 21,962 | Multi-day SIRS N = 10,759 | SIRS plus bacteremia N = 1,412 | SIRS plus hypotension N = 2,026 | SIRS plus hypotension and bacteremia N = 193 | Coded for sepsis N = 2,062 |
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Age [IQR] | 55.0 [41.0, 67.0] | 56.0 [42.0, 68.0] | 59.0 [46.0, 69.0] | 58.5 [48.0, 68.0] | 59.0 [48.0, 70.0] | 59.0 [49.5, 68.0] | 60.0 [49.75, 71.0] |
Male sex (%) | 28,506 (45.8) | 10,526 (47.9) | 5,515 (51.3) | 766 (54.2) | 1,006 (49.7) | 100 (51.8) | 1,107 (53.7) |
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- White (%) | 39,004 (34.4) | 14,382 (65.5) | 7,453 (69.3) | 910 (64.4) | 1,467 (72.4) | 123 (63.7) | 1,370 (66.4) |
- African American, Black (%) | 21,420 (34.4) | 6,943 (31.6) | 3,030 (28.2) | 459 (32.5) | 493 (24.3) | 59 (30.6) | 626 (30.4) |
- Asian, PI/NA (%) | 580 (0.9) | 211 (1.0) | 94 (0.9) | 19 (1.4) | 25 (1.2) | 4 (2.0) | 27 (1.3) |
- Other, unknown (%) | 1,257 (2.0) | 426 (1.9) | 182 (1.7) | 24 (1.7) | 41 (2.0) | 9 (4.6) | 39 (1.9) |
Length of stay [IQR] | 3.0 [2.0, 6.0] | 6.0 [3.0, 11.0] | 10.0 [6.0, 17.0] | 13.0 [6.0, 25.0] | 7.0 [4.0, 13.0] | 13.0 [5.0, 24.5] | 11.0 [5.0, 21.25] |
ICU admission (%) | 10,377 (16.7) | 8,193 (37.3) | 5,634 (52.4) | 815 (57.7) | 1,267 (62.5) | 151 (78.2) | 1,521 (73.8) |
In-hospital all-cause mortality (%) | 1,715 (2.8) | 1,535 (7.0) | 1,023 (9.5) | 292 (20.7) | 328 (16.2) | 58 (30.1) | 654 (31.7) |