Table 1 Patient Characteristics by Mortality Status (N = 302)
From: Prevalence of and characteristics associated with in-hospital mortality in a Ugandan neurology ward
| Â | Alive | Dead | Total | P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | % | N | % | N | % | ||
Total N | 246 | 81.5% | 56 | 18.5% | 302 | 100.0% | Â |
Age (Median/Range) | 46 | [9, 95] | 54 | [9, 89] | 47 | [9, 95] | .14 |
Age group | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | .028 |
 > =45 | 127 | 51.6% | 38 | 67.9% | 165 | 54.6% |  |
Gender | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | .33 |
 Female | 128 | 52.0% | 25 | 44.6% | 153 | 50.7% |  |
Marital Status | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | .18 |
 Married | 131 | 53.3% | 24 | 42.9% | 155 | 51.3% |  |
 Single | 44 | 17.9% | 10 | 17.9% | 54 | 17.9% |  |
 Widow/Divorced | 48 | 19.5% | 17 | 30.4% | 65 | 21.5% |  |
Occupation | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | .004 |
 Employed/Farmer | 77 | 31.3% | 10 | 17.9% | 87 | 28.8% |  |
 Unemployed/Retired | 23 | 9.3% | 12 | 21.4% | 35 | 11.6% |  |
 Student/Housewife | 44 | 17.9% | 5 | 8.9% | 49 | 16.2% |  |
 Peasant | 38 | 15.4% | 14 | 25.0% | 52 | 17.2% |  |
 Missingb | 64 | 26.0% | 15 | 26.8% | 79 | 26.2% |  |
Smoking Status | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | .22 |
 Never | 189 | 76.8% | 36 | 64.3% | 225 | 74.5% |  |
 Currently Smokes | 32 | 13.0% | 10 | 17.9% | 42 | 13.9% |  |
 Length of Stay (Days, Mean/SD)a | 8.8 | 17.2 | 6.6 | 7.6 | 8.4 | 15.9 | .14 |
 Length of Stay (Days, Median/Range) | 6 | [1, 249] | 4 | [0, 47] | 6 | [0, 249] | .016 |
Discharge Status | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | N/A |
 Functional Status Improved | 186 | 75.6% |  |  | 186 | 61.6% |  |
 Functional Status Worsened | 3 | 1.2% |  |  | 3 | 1.0% |  |
 Functional Status unchanged | 17 | 6.9% |  |  | 17 | 5.6% |  |
 Transferred to another service | 19 | 7.7% |  |  | 19 | 6.3% |  |
 Dead |  |  | 56 | 100.0% | 56 | 18.5% |  |
 Left against medical advice | 21 | 8.5% |  |  | 21 | 7.0% |  |
Any Past Medical History | 161 | 65.4% | 35 | 62.5% | 196 | 64.9% | .86 |
Past Medical History (N = 290) | |||||||
 Stroke | 24 | 10.0% | 6 | 11.8% | 30 | 10.3% | .71 |
Neurologic trauma | |||||||
 Head Trauma | 5 | 2.1% | 2 | 3.9% | 7 | 2.4% | .36 |
 Spinal Cord Insult | 1 | 0.4% | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 0.3% | 1.00 |
Non-communicable disease | |||||||
 Atrial Fibrillation | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 2.0% | 1 | 0.3% | .18 |
 Myocardial Infarction | 1 | 0.4% | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 0.3% | 1.00 |
 Liver Disease | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | N/A |
 Seizure/Convulsion | 34 | 14.2% | 4 | 7.8% | 38 | 13.1% | .26 |
 Psychiatric Illness | 9 | 3.8% | 2 | 3.9% | 11 | 3.8% | 1.00 |
Communicable disease | |||||||
 Syphilis | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | N/A |
 Malaria | 25 | 10.5% | 7 | 13.7% | 32 | 11.0% | .50 |
 Schistosomiasis | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | N/A |
 TB | 8 | 3.3% | 3 | 5.9% | 11 | 3.8% | .42 |
 Pneumonia | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | N/A |
 HIV | 42 | 17.6% | 8 | 15.7% | 50 | 17.2% | .75 |
 Cryptococcus/MAI/PJPc | 2 | 0.8% | 0 | 0.0% | 2 | 0.7% | 1.00 |