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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: The association between hospital length of stay before rapid response system activation and clinical outcomes: a retrospective multicenter cohort study

Variables

Total

Early

Late

P value

patients

deterioration

deterioration

(N = 11,612)

(N = 5779)

(N = 5833)

Age (year)

68 (57–76)

68 (57–77)

67 (57–76)

0.288

Sex

    

 Male

6785 (58.4%)

3265 (56.5%)

3520 (60.4%)

 < 0.001

 Female

4827 (41.6%)

2514 (43.5%)

2313 (39.6%)

 

Body mass index (kg/m2)

22.2 (19.6–25.0)

22.3 (19.8–25.0)

22.2 (19.5–24.9)

0.012

Admission department

 Medical

8160 (70.3%)

4120 (71.3%)

4040 (69.3%)

0.017

 Surgical and obstetrical

3452 (29.7%)

1659 (28.7%)

1793 (30.7%)

 

 Surgical operation

2867 (24.7%)

1050 (18.2%)

1817 (31.2%)

 < 0.001

 Before RRS activation

 Postoperative daysa (days)

3 (1–7)

1 (0–2)

5 (3–10)

 < 0.001

Comorbidity

    

 Solid cancer

4646 (40.0%)

2238 (38.7%)

2408 (41.3%)

0.005

 Hematological malignancy

1002 (8.6%)

336 (5.8%)

666 (11.4%)

 < 0.001

 Cardiovascular disease

2715 (23.4%)

1323 (22.9%)

1392 (23.9%)

0.216

 Diabetes mellitus

3132 (27.0%)

1520 (26.3%)

1612 (27.6%)

0.105

 Chronic lung disease

1687 (14.5%)

909 (15.7%)

778 (13.3%)

 < 0.001

 Hepatobiliary disease

1297 (11.2%)

640 (11.1%)

657 (11.3%)

0.747

 Chronic kidney disease

1251 (10.8%)

590 (10.2%)

661 (11.3%)

0.051

 Cerebrovascular disease

1329 (11.5%)

585 (10.1%)

744 (12.8%)

 < 0.001

 Organ transplantation

356 (3.1%)

128 (2.2%)

228 (3.9%)

 < 0.001

Hospital LOS before

5 (2–10)

2 (1–3)

10 (7–17)

 < 0.001

RRS activation (days)

  1. RRS rapid response system, LOS length of stay
  2. aPostoperative days are summarized for only patients who were admitted and received a surgical operation