Pulmonary Infection Is an Independent Risk Factor for Long-Term Mortality and Quality of Life for Sepsis Patients

Table 4

Baseline characteristics of sepsis survivors with good/poor one-year QoL.

Variables	Good QoL	Poor QoL
	Age, mean (SD)	54.6 (16.7)		58.8 (16.4)	0.066
Male sex, %	80 (75.5)	63 (61.2)
APACHE II, mean (SD)	18.1 (7.0)	20.6 (7.6)
SOFA, mean (SD)	7.2 (3.7)	7.9 (4.3)	0.245
Charlson Comorbidity Index	2 (0,3)	3 (1,4)
Septic shock, %	60 (56.6)	57 (55.3)	0.890
Chronic heart failure, %	2 (1.9)	11 (10.7)
Pulmonary , %	50 (47.2)	79 (76.7)
Pulmonary-sepsis, %	38 (25.8)	59 (57.3)
ICU treatment within 24 h, %
IPPV	88 (83.0)	87 (84.5)	0.852
NPPV	3 (2.8)	11 (10.7)
Tube	18 (20.0)	5 (5.1)
Vasopressor	28 (26.4)	34 (33.0)	0.364
MV, d	6 (22–12)	8 (4–17)
ICU LOS, d	11 (6–19)	15 (7–27)
Hospital LOS, d	26.5 (16.8–42.3)	31 (20–58)

Quantitative data was presented as median (IQR), and qualitative data was presented as (%) except otherwise indicated. SD, standard deviation; IPPV, invasive ventilation; NPPV, noninvasive ventilation; MV, mechanical ventilation; ICU LOS, length of ICU stay; hospital LOS, length of hospital stay;
infection was defined as pulmonary infection identified during the whole ICU stay period.
; patients without mechanical ventilation were excluded.