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Table 1 Patient Demographics

From: Critical Care in the Emergency Department: An assessment of the length of stay and invasive procedures performed on critically ill ED patients

General

a) Age

Mean

57.9 years

Median

55 years

Range

16-89 years

 
 

b) Sex

Male

106 (59.6%)

Female

72 (40.4%)

  

CTAS@

CTAS Score

Recorded in chart: 70/178 (39.3%)

CTAS 1

11/70 (15.7%)

CTAS 2

39/70 (55.7%)

CTAS 3

20/70 (28.6%)

CTAS 4 or 5

0/70

 

Mortality per CTAS

2/11 (18.2%)

8/29 (26.51%)

5/20 (20.0%)

 

Mortality*

39/178 (21.9%)

    

LOS

a) ED LOS#

Mean

6.5 h

median

4.9 h

Range

1.4-28.2 h

 
 

b) Hospital LOS$

498.5 h

(20.8 days)

216 h

(9.0 days)

Range

24-8688 h

(1-362 days)

 

Discharge Location

Alive: 139/178 (78.1%)

Home

111/178 (62.3%)

Long term care facility%

8/178 (4.5%)

Other%

18/178 (10.1%)

Unknown

2 (1.1%)

  1. @ Canadian Triage Acuity Score
  2. * In-hospital mortality;
  3. # Emergency Department length of stay
  4. $ Hospital length of stay
  5. % Rehabilitation hospital or similar facility