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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: A stratification strategy to predict secondary infection in critical illness-induced immune dysfunction: the REALIST score

Preadmission characteristics

Whole REALISM cohort

n = 353

Cohort of interest

(ICU at D5–7)

n = 189

Age (year)

60 [47–71]

59 [45–72]

Female gender

122 (34.6%)

52 (27.5%)

BMI (kg/m2)

25.0 [22.3–28.4]

25.2 [22.6–28.5]

Admission reason

  

 Sepsis*

107 (30.3%)

72 (38.1%)

 Trauma

137 (38.8%)

95 (50.3%)

 Surgery

109 (30.8%)

22 (11.6%)

Clinical characteristics

  

 Admission SAPS2

29 [20–43]

35 [23–47]

 SOFA at admission

5 [1–8]

6 [2–9]

 SOFA at D5–7

1 [0–2]

1 [0–4]

 Mechanical ventilation at D5–7

33 (9.3%)

33 (18.2%)

 Renal Replacement Therapy at D5–7

17 (4.8%)

16 (8.5%)

Outcomes

  

 Secondary infection at D 30

74 (21.0%)

42 (22.2%)

 Secondary infection onset (days)

9 [6–15]

11 [9–17]

 D30 ICU free days

23 [18–26]

22 [15.5–24]

 D30 hosp. free days

15 [2–21]

9 [0–17.5]

 D30 mortality

18 (5.1%)

10 (5.3%)

  1. Data are presented as absolute numbers (percentage) or as median [Q1–Q3].
  2. *See Additional file 1: Table S2 for detailed infection characteristics for patients admitted with sepsis.