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Table 1 Demographics of ICU patients (N = 7717)

From: Predictive models for pressure ulcers from intensive care unit electronic health records using Bayesian networks

Variable

Total

PU group (N = 590)

Non-PU group (N = 7127)

Statistic

p value

Gender, freq (%)

Male

4426

378 (64.1%)

4048 (56.8%)

\( {x}^2=1.9 \)

<.001

 

Female

3291

212 (35.9%)

3079 (43.2%)

  

Race/Ethnicity, freq (%)

White

6345

469 (79.5%)

5876 (82.4%)

\( {x}^2=3.15 \)

.076

 

Non-white

1372

121 (20.5%)

1251 (17.6%)

  

Age (years), mean (SD)

57.7 (15.9)

59.0 (15.5)

57.6 (16)

t = 4.52

.034

Length of ICU stay (days), mean (SD)

10.1 (10)

13.4 (14.3)

9.8 (9.6)

t = 70.56

<.001

  1. Note: SD = Standard Deviation