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Table 1 Summary of patient characteristics

From: Antimicrobial stewardship of Chinese ministry of health reduces multidrug-resistant organism isolates in critically ill patients: a pre-post study from a single center

 

All patients (978)

Before management (433)

After Management (545)

p value

Age, years

64 ± 19

64 ± 19

65 ± 18

0.319

Male (%)

630 (64)

267 (62)

363 (67)

0.109

APACHEII score

16 ± 9

16 ± 9

16 ± 9

0.578

Admission source

 Emergency

313 (32)

132 (30)

181 (33)

0.268

 Surgery

473 (48)

205 (47)

268 (49)

0.569

 Medicine

192 (20)

96 (22)

96 (18)

0.075

ICU mortality (%)

244 (25)

112 (26)

132 (24)

0.55

Hospital mortality (%)

281 (29)

133 (31)

148 (27)

0.22

Duration of ICU stay

5 (2–10)

5 (2–10)

5 (2–10)

0.954

Duration of hospitalization

17 (8–30)

18 (8–33)

17 (9–30)

0.009

  1. APACHEII Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II