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Table 1 Demographics for patients responding at both 6 and 12 months (n = 293)

From: An exploration of social and economic outcome and associated health-related quality of life after critical illness in general intensive care unit survivors: a 12-month follow-up study

Sex

n(%)

Male

Female

192(66%)

101(34%)

Median age (years)

(IQR)

 

62(52-71)

APACHE II

n(%)

18 ≤

> 18

unrecorded

156(53%)

127(43%)

10(3%)

Median dependency (days)

(IQR)

Level 3 care

Respiratory support

6(3-12)

4(2-11)

Median length of stay (days)

(IQR)

ICU

Hospital

8(5-16)

29(17-47)

Type

n(%)

Medical

Surgical emergency

Surgical elective

Trauma

Unknown

173(59%)

59(20%)

30(10%)

30(10%)

1(0%)

ICNARC top 5 diagnoses [28]

n(%)

Pneumonia, no organism isolated

Septic shock

Bacterial pneumonia

Aortic or iliac dissection or aneurysm

Large bowel tumor

37(13%)

29(10%)

21(7%)

20(7%)

5(2%)

Ethnicity

n(%)

British

Irish

Other white background

No answer

African

Chinese

Pakistani

Any other

257(88%)

7(2%)

7(2%)

7(2%)

5(2%)

2(1%)

2(1%)

6(2%)

  1. APACHE II: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II; ICNARC: Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre; IQR: interquartile range