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Table 1 Summary of complete admissions cohort

From: Predicting mortality in acutely hospitalised older patients: the impact of model dimensionality

 

Alive at 600 days (n = 510)

Deceased at 600 days (n = 294)

p value

Age (mean, 95% CI)

83.7 (69.98–97.42)

85.9 (72.38–99.42)

< 0·01

Women (%, 95% CI)

27.6 (23.72–31.48)

16.8 (12.53–20.68)

< 0·01

Cognitive status (%, 95% CI)

  

0·02

Cognitively intact

46.70 (42.37–51.03)

39.77 (34.18–44.10)

 

Delirium only

20.35 (16.86–23.84)

24.86 (19.92–28.35)

 

Dementia only

17.03 (13.77–20.29)

14.36 (10.35–17.62)

 

Delirium + dementia

15.93 (12.75–19.11)

22.10 (17.36–25.28)

 

Brain volume (mls, 95% CI)

917 (742–1091)

908 (716–1100)

0·20

Atrophy (%, 95% CI)

81.4 (77.28–85.52)

81.1 (77.18–85.02)

0·35

  1. Mean values are presented for continuous variables, with 95% confidence intervals in brackets. The p values reported in the last column are derived from chi squared tests for categorical variables and two sample t-test for continuous variables. The value for cognitive status assumes ordinal progression in cognitive decline across the categories itemised beneath