Outcome of patients admitted during off hours in Moroccan intensive care unit

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Table 1 Comparison of clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the group of patients admitted during the day time versus the group admitted during off hours in intensive care unit

Variables	All patients	Group		P-valuea
		Day time	Off hours
Total patient numbers	195	125	70
Sex, male/female, (% male)	130/65 (66)	60/43 (58)	68/22 (75)	0.01
Age, median (IQR), years	32 (23–52)	30 (22, 54)	35 (23, 52)	0.9
APACHE II score at admission (mean ± SD)	14.7±3	14.9±5.6	15±6.4	0.4
Presence of medical history	74 (38)	41 (34)	33 (45)	0.29
Cardiovascular	13 (6.6)	9 (7)	4 (5.7)	0.06
Diabetes	15 (7.7)	10 (8)	5 (7)	0.15
Respiratory	11 (5.6)	5 (4)	6 (8.6)	0.3
Neurological	14 (7.2)	8 (8)	6 (8.6)	0.25
Others	21 (10.8)	9 (7)	12 (17)	0.06
Admissions type
Trauma	75 (38)	30 (24)	45 (64)	<0.001
Medical pathology	63 (33.6)	31 (25)	32 (45)	0.09
Sepsis	11 (5.7)	5 (4.9)	6 (6.5)	0.1
Respiratory distress	11 (5.7)	6 (5.8)	5 (5.6)	0.9
Shock	10 (5.2)	4 (3.9)	6 (6.5)	0.3
Metabolic	13 (6.7)	6 (5.8)	7 (7.8)	0.6
Neurologic	8 (4)	5 (4.9)	3 (3.4)	0.8
Intoxication	10 (5.2)	5 (4.9)	5 (5.6)	0.7
Surgery	57 (29)	42 (60)	14 (20)	0.06
Mechanical ventilation	126 (64)	65 (63)	61 (65)	0.7
Median ICU LOS (IQR)	5 (3 to10)	5 (3 to 10)	7 (4 to 13)	0.07
ICU mortality	85 (43)	38 (37)	47 (51)	0.05

Notes:

a alpha risk of first species. Unless otherwise specified the data are presented as number, followed by percentage in brackets.

Abbreviations: APACHE, acute physiology and chronic health evaluation score; ICU, intensive care unit; IQR, interquartile range; LOS, length of stay; SD, standard deviation.

Table 2 Risk factors for patient mortality

Parameters in the model	Wald	P-valuea	Adjusted OR (95% CI)
Logistic regression model
Age (years)	0.95	0.3	1 (0.97 to 1)
Sex (male)	0.17	0.68	1.17 (0.54 to 2.57)
Presence of medical history	0.45	0.50	0.75 (0.33 to 1.7)
APACHE II score	2.17	0.14	0. 9 (0.9 to 1)
Trauma admission	0.08	0.09	0.46 (0.19 to 1.12)
Mechanical ventilation	12	0.001	4.17 (1.86 to 9.37)
Length of stay	0.009	0.92	1 (0.96 to 1.04)
Off hours admission	0.89	0.34	1.38 (0.70 to 2.71)

Note:

a Alpha risk of first species.

Abbreviations: APACHE, acute physiology and chronic health evaluation score; OR, odds ratio.