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Table 1 Data collected from hospital and ICU nursing records for brain-injured and non-brain-injured patients

From: A gap existed between physicians’ perceptions and performance of pain, agitation-sedation and delirium assessments in Chinese intensive care units

Patient Characteristics

All (n = 387)

Brain-injured (n = 261)

Non-brain-injured (n = 126)

P

Age, years

61 (47–76)

56 (44–72)

72 (54–79)

< 0.001

Male, n (%)

234 (60.5)

149 (57.1)

85 (67.5)

0.051

Any medical history, n (%)

224 (57.9)

139 (53.3)

85 (67.5)

0.008

Alcohol abuse, n (%)

9 (2.3)

3 (1.1)

6 (4.8)

0.064

History of smoke, n (%)

58 (15.0)

36 (13.8)

22 (17.5)

0.344

ICU LOS before enrolment, days

6 (1–14)

6 (1–14)

5 (1–13)

0.526

GCS at ICU admission

9 (5–14)

7 (4–11)

12 (9–15)

< 0.001

APACHE II at ICU admission

17 (11–22)

17 (10–22)

16 (11–22)

0.974

SOFA score on the day before study

5 (3–8)

5 (2–7)

6 (3–9)

0.009

Any artificial airway, n (%)

246 (63.6)

183 (70.1)

63 (50.0)

< 0.001

Oral intubation

121 (31.3)

79 (30.3)

42 (33.3)

0.542

Nasal intubation

20 (5.2)

17 (6.5)

3 (2.4)

0.093

Tracheostomy

105 (27.1)

87 (33.3)

18 (14.3)

< 0.001

Mechanical ventilation, n (%)

   

0.002

 Invasive

187 (48.3)

125 (47.9)

62 (49.2)

 

 Non-invasive

11 (2.8)

2 (0.8)

9 (7.1)

 

Presence of arterial line, n (%)

91 (23.5)

43 (16.5)

48 (38.1)

< 0.001

Presence of central venous catheter, n (%)

192 (49.6)

124 (47.5)

68 (54.0)

0.234

Presence of any drainage tubes, n (%)

101 (26.1)

57 (21.8)

44 (34.9)

0.006

Use of restraint, n (%)

233 (60.2)

165 (63.2)

68 (54.0)

0.081

Body temperature control, n (%)

   

0.184

 Hyperthermia control

49 (12.7)

36 (13.8)

13 (10.3)

 

 Hypothermia therapy

5 (1.3)

5 (1.9)

0 (0)

 

Outcomes

    

 Accidental removal of tubes, n (%)

8 (2.1)

6 (2.3)

2 (1.6)

0.645

 All types of infection, n (%)

285 (73.6)

190 (72.8)

95 (75.4)

0.586

 Sepsis, n (%)

65 (16.8)

45 (17.2)

20 (15.9)

 

 Septic shock, n (%)

23 (5.9)

4 (1.5)

19 (15.1)

 

 ICU mortality, n (%)

45 (11.6)

27 (10.3)

18 (14.3)

0.257

 ICU LOS, days

15 (6–29)

16 (7–30)

14 (5–25)

0.218

 Hospital mortality, n (%)

52 (13.4)

30 (11.5)

22 (17.5)

0.107

 Hospital LOS, days

29 (17–58)

30 (18–58)

27 (16–56)

0.390

 Hospital costs, CNY

132,000 (63,855–247,411)

132,000 (67,840–243,305)

131,579 (53,013–248,361)

0.540

  1. ICU intensive care unit, LOS length of stay, GCS Glasgow Coma Scale, APACHE Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation, SOFA sequential organ failure assessment
  2. Continuous data are shown as median (interquartile range)