Baseline demographics, clinical characteristics, and comorbidities of 69 patients with sepsis.

<p>APACHE II = Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II, SOFA = Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment.</p><p>The <i>p</i>-values for age were calculated using the t-test, and those for the APACHE II scores and SOFA score were calculated using the Mann-Whitney <i>U</i> test. Fisher’s exact tests were applied for the categorical variables. A <i>p</i>-value < 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant.</p><p>IQR = inter-quartile range, SD = standard deviation.</p><p>^a<i>p</i> = 0.000433.</p><p>Baseline demographics, clinical characteristics, and comorbidities of 69 patients with sepsis.