Potentially Preventable Deaths by Intensive Care Medicine in Mongolian Hospitals
Table 3
Demographic and clinical data of study patients dying outside of the ICU.
Parameter
Potentially preventable patients
Unpreventable patients
p value
N
54
113
Intensivist available (/%)
38 (70.4)
97 (85.8)
0.02
Age (years)
48.5 (36.3–62)
56 (41.5–72)
0.006
Male gender (/%)
40 (74.1)
58 (51.3)
0.007
Comorbid conditions (/%)
<0.001
None
21 (38.9)
14 (12.4)
Arterial hypertension
18 (33.3)
27 (23.9)
Liver cirrhosis
2 (3.7)
23 (20.4)
Congestive heart failure
1 (1.9)
17 (15)
Diabetes mellitus
4 (7.4)
7 (6.2)
Chronic renal insufficiency
2 (3.7)
5 (4.4)
Cancer
3 (5.6)
17 (15)
Chronic respiratory insufficiency
3 (5.6)
3 (2.7)
Diagnostic category (/%)
<0.001
Neurological
13 (24.1)
39 (34.5)
Medical
11 (20.4)
33 (29.2)
Trauma
13 (24.1)
12 (10.6)
Surgical (nontrauma)
7 (13)
5 (4.4)
Infection
10 (18.5)
2 (1.8)
Miscellaneous
0
22 (19.5)
Hospital length of stay (days)
5 (3–9)
3 (1–7)
0.002
Treatment costs
Tugrik (thousands)
230 (89–620)
230 (61–273)
0.17
US dollars (exchange rate December 15)
115 (45–310)
115 (31–137)
0.17
Predicted risk of death by diagnostic category
0.29 (0.21–0.37)
0.28 (0.2–0.29)
0.047
Years of life lost
21 (9–29)
13 (0–25)
0.19
Productive years of life lost
10 (0–23)
1 (0–18)
0.16
Autopsy performed (/%)
27 (50)
33 (29.2)
0.02
ICU, intensive care unit; significant difference between patients whose death was considered potentially preventable and those whose death was considered unpreventable. Data are given as median values with interquartile range, if not otherwise indicated.
