Patients Admitted to Three Spanish Intensive Care Units for Poisoning: Type of Poisoning, Mortality, and Functioning of Prognostic Scores Commonly Used

Table 2

(a) Relationship between mortality and quantitative variables

	Survivors	Nonsurvivors
	()	()
Age			0.002
GCS at admission			0.503
APACHE II			<0.001
APACHE III			<0.001
SAPS-3			0.167
Predicted mortality by SAPS-3; (general equation)			0.167
Predicted mortality by SAPS-3 (Southern Europe equation)			0.167
Predicted mortality by APACHE-II			<0.001
Predicted mortality by APACHE-III			<0.001

Quantitative variables are expressed as mean ± standard deviation and median with interquartile range in brackets.

(b) Relationship between mortality and qualitative variables

	Mortality
Attempted suicide		0.508
Yes ()	7 (7.5%)
No ()	1 (3.8%)
Mechanical ventilation at admission		0.054
Yes ()	8 (9.6%)
No ()	0 (0%)
Type of poisoning
Drug overdose		<0.001
Yes ()	1 (1.1%)
No ()	7 (9.9%)
Alcohol		0.180
Yes ()	0 (0%)
No ()	8 (8.1%)
Caustics		<0.001
Yes ()	6 (54.5%)
No ()	2 (1.9%)