Stories on the Internet(n = 237) | p valuea | Patients(n = 83) | p valueb | Stories in newspapers(n = 182) | |
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Age c | 33.37 ± 21.62 | 0.55 | 31.68 ± 22.72 | 0.32 | 28.75 ± 21.75 |
Length of ECMO use by day d | 15.65 ± 26.95 | 0.13 | 10.57 ± 16.08 | 0.37 | 12.87 ± 18.91 |
Length of ICU stay by day e | 16.90 ± 16.91 | 0.24 | 13.67 ± 15.80 | 0.83 | 14.21 ± 14.04 |
Length of hospital stay by day f | 38.69 ± 50.61 | 0.81 | 36.86 ± 56.41 | 0.44 | 31.72 ± 38.19 |
Gender g | 0.94 | 0.50 | |||
Male | 146 (63.76%) | 50 (63.29%) | 107 (58.79%) | ||
Female | 83 (36.24%) | 29 (36.71%) | 75 (41.21%) | ||
Hospital location | < 0.01 | 0.97 | |||
Urban | 190 (80.17%) | 54 (65.06%) | 118 (64.84%) | ||
Rural | 47 (19.83%) | 29 (34.94%) | 64 (36.16%) | ||
Level of hospital h | < 0.01 | 0.54 | |||
Medical center | 168 (70.89%) | 45 (54.88%) | 106 (58.89%) | ||
Non-medical center | 69 (29.11%) | 37 (45.12%) | 74 (41.11%) | ||
Primary reason for ECMO use | 0.14 | 0.88 | |||
Cardiac | 127 (53.59%) | 40 (48.19%) | 93 (51.10%) | ||
Pulmonary | 95 (40.08%) | 32 (38.55%) | 68 (37.36%) | ||
Others | 15 (6.33%) | 11 (13.25%) | 21 (11.54%) | ||
Status at hospital discharge | < 0.01 | 0.19 | |||
Alive | 199 (83.97%) | 58 (69.88%) | 112 (61.54%) | ||
Dead | 38 (16.03%) | 25 (30.12%) | 70 (38.46%) |