One-Year Outcome of Geriatric Hip-Fracture Patients following Prolonged ICU Treatment

Table 1

Baseline data, given as mean and standard deviation (±) or as odds ratio with confidence interval (CI). For all tests, statistical significance was assumed at .

	Given	nICU	sICU	pICU	= sICU/pICU
Number of patients		66	275	61	—
Patients’ age	Mean (SD)	79 (±8)	82 (±8)	82 (±9)	0.970
	95% CI	77–81	81–83	80–84	—
Gender	Male (%)	14 (21%)	71 (26%)	24 (39%)	—
	Female (%)	52 (79%)	204 (74%)	37 (61%)	0.049
BMI	Mean (SD)	16 (±33)	18 (±29)	19 (±28)	0.999
ASA score	Mean (SD)	2.7 (±0.7)	2.9 (±0.6)	3.1 (±0.6)	0.107
Prefracture Barthel index	95% CI	2.5–2.8	2.9–3.0	2.9–3.2	—
	Mean (SD)	89 (±21)	79 (±24)	72 (±28)	0.300
Prefracture nursing-care need	95% CI	83–94	76–82	65–80	—
	%	21 (32%)	144 (52%)	44 (72%)	0.042
Charlson score	Mean (SD)	1.7 (2.2)	2.3 (2.1)	3.6 (2.8)	<0.001
	95% CI	1.1–2.2	2.0–2.5	2.9–4.3	—
Time to operation/h	Mean (SD)	18.1 (1.4)	17.2 (0.8)	23.3 (2.3)	0.041
	95% CI	15.2–21	15.7–18.7	18.7–27.9	—