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Table 2 Characteristics of MRSA positive and negative neurological early rehabilitation patients

From: Outcome of MRSA carriers in neurological early rehabilitation

 

MRSA positive

MRSA negative

p-value*

Age [years]

65.8 (15.1)

67.0 (15.8)

n.s.

Length of stay (LOS) – referring hospital [days]

32.8 (42.9)

34.4 (260.5)

n.s.

LOS – neurological early rehabilitation [days]

63.7 (37.1)

25.8 (24.5)

< 0.001

LOS – entire neurological rehabilitation [days]

75.0 (42.5)

46.8 (47.1)

< 0.001

Number of co-diagnoses [n]

20.5 (5.1)

13.3 (5.5)

< 0.001

Barthel Index (BI) on admission [0 to 100]

13.6 (9.9)

25.6 (24.1)

< 0.001

Barthel index on discharge [0 to 100]

25.5 (21.2)

47.4 (31.0)

< 0.001

Early Rehabilitation Index (ERI) on admission [−325 to 0]

−80.1 (59.5)

−47.9 (47.6)

< 0.001

ERI on discharge [−325 to 0]

−47.3 (51.4)

−26.0 (35.4)

< 0.001

Coma Remission Scale (CRS) [0 to 24]

11.0 (6.2)

14.0 (6.8)

n.s.

Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) [3 to 15]

9.5 (3.2)

12.0 (3.3)

< 0.001

Early functional abilities (EFA) – vegetative [4 to 20]

8.6 (3.0)

12.4 (7.0)

< 0.001

EFA – faciooral [4 to 20]

9.2 (5.0)

15.4 (5.3)

< 0.001

EFA – sensorymotor [7 to 35]

14.4 (6.9)

22.8 (8.2)

< 0.001

EFA – cognitive [5 to 25]

13.3 (6.4)

18.7 (5.2)

< 0.001

Physiotherapy [min/day]

42.5 (12.7)

36.6 (10.2)

< 0.001

Ergotherapy [min/day]

30.3 (1.9)

31.2 (4.7)

n.s.

Speech therapy [min/day]

24.1 (5.8)

27.2 (5.7)

< 0.001

Cognitive therapy [min/day]

34.9 (6.1)

42.9 (9.4)

< 0.001

Total main therapies [min/day]

131.6 (16.6)

140.2 (18.7)

< 0.001

  1. *t-tests for independent samples, n.s. = not significant (p > 0.05).