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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: The optimal dose of mobilisation therapy in the ICU: a prospective cohort study

 

All patients, n = 684

Group of patients with

p-value

< 40 min per day, n = 412

≥ 40 min per day, n = 272

Patient characteristics

Age (years), median [IQR]

66 [55–76]

64 [54–73]

70 [57–77]

0.002

Female, n (%)

409 (59.8)

234 (56.8)

175 (64.3)

0.049

Body mass index (kg/m2), n (%)

0.20

 Underweight

40 (5.8)

29 (7.0)

11 (4.0)

 

 Normal

289 (42.3)

171 (41.5)

118 (43.4)

 

 Overweight

259 (37.9)

149 (36.2)

110 (40.4)

 

 Obese

96 (14.0)

63 (15.3)

33 (12.1)

 

MTB at hospital admission, median [IQR]

30 [30–30]

30 [30–30]

30 [30–30]

0.079

Invasive mechanical ventilation, n (%)

360 (52.6)

247 (60.0)

113 (41.5)

< 0.001

ICU admission, n (%)

0.74

 From home

461 (67.4)

280 (68.0)

181 (66.5)

 

 From hospital

212 (31.0)

127 (30.8)

85 (31.3)

 

 From nursing home

8 (1.2)

4 (1.0)

4 (1.5)

 

 Unknown

3 (0.4)

1 (0.2)

2 (0.7)

 

Frailty, n (%)

148 (21.6)

78 (18.9)

70 (25.7)

0.034

Scoring

 

APACHE II, median [IQR]

13 [10–17]

14 [9–17]

13 [10–17]

> 0.99

SOFA, median [IQR]

6 [4–8]

6 [4–8]

6 [3–8]

0.039

CCI, median [IQR]

1 [0–3]

1 [0–2]

2 [0–3]

< 0.001

GCS, median [IQR]

14.5 [10–15]

14 [8–15]

15 [13–15]

< 0.001

Department, n (%)

< 0.001

 Neurocritical

281 (41.1)

194 (47.1)

87 (32.0)

 

 Surgical

341 (49.9)

191 (46.4)

150 (55.1)

 

 Medical

36 (5.3)

18 (4.4)

18 (6.6)

 

 Other

26 (3.8)

9 (2.2)

17 (6.3)

 

ICU admission reasons

 

Sepsis, n (%)

84 (12.3)

44 (10.7)

40 (14.7)

0.12

Polytrauma, n (%)

27 (3.9)

21 (5.1)

6 (2.2)

0.057

Traumatic brain injury, n (%)

80 (11.7)

58 (14.1)

22 (8.1)

0.017

Non-traumatic brain pathology, n (%)

127 (18.6)

94 (22.8)

33 (12.1)

< 0.001

Postoperative, n (%)

169 (24.7)

93 (22.6)

76 (27.9)

0.11

Cardiac, n (%)

34 (5.0)

18 (4.4)

16 (5.9)

0.37

Pulmonary, n (%)

206 (30.1)

101 (24.5)

105 (38.6)

< 0.001

Other, n (%)

122 (17.8)

73 (17.7)

49 (18.0)

0.92

Mobilisation parameters

 

Mean mobilisation sessions per day, median [IQR]

0.20 [0.10–0.40]

0.18 [0.09–0.33]

0.25 [0.11–0.50]

0.002

Maximum SOMS level reached, n (%)

< 0.001

 2

218 (31.9)

190 (46.1)

28 (10.3)

 

 3

265 (38.7)

148 (35.9)

117 (43.0)

 

 4

201 (29.4)

74 (18.0)

127 (46.7)

 

Early mobilisation, n (%)

447 (65.4)

244 (59.2)

203 (74.6)

< 0.001

Hospital trajectory

 

ICU length of stay (days), median [IQR]

10 [4–22]

9 [4–20]

11 [5–26]

0.037

Hospital length of stay (days), median [IQR]

29 [19–44]

28 [19–41]

31 [19–51]

0.016

Hospital mortality after ICU discharge, n (%)

32 (4.7)

21 (5.1)

11 (4.0)

0.52

  1. Numbers are presented as n (%) or median [IQR]. “Frailty” is defined as Clinical Frailty Scale 5–9
  2. ICU intensive care unit, IQR interquartile range, GCS Glasgow Coma Scale, APACHE Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation Score, SOFA Sepsis-Related Organ Failure Assessment Score, CCI Charlson Comorbidity index, MTB mobility-transfer-Barthel, SOMS Surgical ICU optimal mobilisation score