Research Article

Analysis of Adverse Events during Intrahospital Transportation of Critically Ill Patients

Table 2

Comparison of demographic data and prognostic scores of critically ill patients with and without intrahospital transport.

With transport ()Without transport () value

Age62.2/18.264.3/16.90.33
Gender M55%53.4%0.89
SOFA (day 1)5/3.55.2/4.10.64
SAPS46.8/14.548.2/18.10.86
Time in ICU14.8/16.76.9/8.7<0.001
Time in hospital23.2/22.617.2/22.30.03
Mortality-ICU28%22.5%0.37
Mortality-hospital34.8%28.9%0.34

M: masculine, SOFA (day 1): Sequential Organ Failure Assessment at study entry, SAPS: Simplified Acute Physiology Score, and ICU: Intensive Care Unit; mean/standard deviation; Student’s -test; Fisher Exact; Mann–Whitney.