Review Article
Food for Thought: The Effects of Nutritional Support on Outcomes in Hospitalized Elderly Patients and the Critically Ill
Table 2
Severe lung injury study: outcome measures in the intention to treat analysis.
| | Parameter | Study group () | Control group () | value |
| | SOFA score at 3 days | 5.44 ± 2.76 | 7.04 ± 4.25 | 0.027 | | ICU mortality (%) | 24.6 | 26.2 | 0.64 | | Hospital mortality (%) | 32.3 | 47.7 | 0.058 | | Sixty-day survival (%) | 57.9 ± 9.9 | 48.1 ± 7.6 | 0.023 | | Length of ventilation (days) | 16.1 ± 14.7 | 10.5 ± 8.3 | 0.03 | | Length of ICU stay (days) | 17.2 ± 14.6 | 11.7 ± 8.4 | 0.04 | | Infectious complication () | 37 | 20 | 0.05 | | VAP () | 18 | 9 | 0.08 |
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VAP: ventilator-associated pneumonia; SOFA: sequential organ failure assessment.
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