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Table 3 Length of stay and mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (n = 96) in intensive care unit (ICU)/hospital, according to the presence of cancer

From: Cancer patients with community-acquired pneumonia treated in intensive care have poorer outcomes associated with increased illness severity and septic shock at admission to intensive care: a retrospective cohort study

Characteristic

Cancer

p-value

 

No (n = 77)

Yes (n = 19)

 
 

Median (IQR)

Patients n (%)

Median (IQR)

Patients n (%)

 

Length of ICU stay (days)

8 (3–17)

 

8 (3–38)

 

0.712

Length of hospital stay (days)

17 (11–35)

 

21 (7–47)

 

0.963

ICU mortality

 

24 (31.2)

 

13 (68.4)

0.004

Hospital mortality

 

26 (33.8)

 

15 (78.9)

0.001

  1. IQR, interquartile range
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