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Table 1 Summary statistics of included patients based on in-hospital mortality

From: In-hospital mortality for aspiration pneumonia in a tertiary teaching hospital: A retrospective cohort review from 2008 to 2018

Clinical parameters

In-hospital mortality

No (n = 500)

Yes (n = 134)

p-value

Age, mean (SD)

68.2 (19.3)

80.3 (13.4)

< 0.001

Gender, male (%)

311 (62.2)

92 (68.7)

0.201

Year of admission, n (%)

  

0.718

 2008

39 (7.8)

10 (7.5)

 

 2009

47 (9.4)

15 (11.2)

 

 2010

51 (10.2)

18 (13.4)

 

 2011

31 (6.2)

5 (3.7)

 

 2012

49 (9.8)

10 (7.5)

 

 2013

52 (10.4)

7 (5.2)

 

 2014

48 (9.6)

14 (10.4)

 

 2015

47 (9.4)

14 (10.4)

 

 2016

45 (9.0)

14 (10.4)

 

 2017

52 (10.4)

14 (10.4)

 

 2018

39 (7.8)

13 (9.7)

 

Number of comorbidities, n (%)

  

0.041

 0

1 (0.2)

0 (0.0)

 

 1

79 (15.8)

10 (7.5)

 

 ≥ 2

420 (84.0)

124 (92.5)

 

CCI, median (IQR)

1.0 (0.0, 2.0)

2.0 (1.0, 3.0)

0.011

Invasive mechanical ventilation, n (%)

72 (14.4)

33 (24.6)

0.007

Total LOS, median (IQR)

6.0 (3.0, 13.0)

10.5 (3.3, 19.0)

0.012

Total direct cost, median $ (IQR)

6208.7 (3142.0, 12,962.4)

10,161.2 (3756.7, 26,627.3)

0.002

Total indirect cost, median $ (IQR)

2249.5 (1073.0, 4453.2)

3594.7 (1284.3, 8833.3)

0.005

SLP intervention, n (%)

223 (44.6)

59 (44.0)

0.984

  1. SD Standard deviation, CCI Charlson comorbidity index, IQR interquartile range, LOS Length of stay, SLP Speech language pathology