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Intensive Care Unit Patients
Description
Data for a sample of 200 patients at an Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
Format
A data frame with 200 observations on the following 9 variables.
ID | Patient ID code |
Survive | 1=patient survived to discharge or 0=patient died |
Age | Age (in years) |
AgeGroup | 1= young (under 50), 2= middle (50-69), 3 = old (70+) |
Sex | 1=female or 0=male |
Infection | 1=infection suspected or 0=no infection |
SysBP | Systolic blood pressure (in mm of Hg) |
Pulse | Heart rate (beats per minute) |
Emergency | 1=emergency admission or 0=elective admission |
Details
This dataset contains information for a sample of 200 patients who were part of a larger study conducted in a hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Since an ICU often deals with serious, life-threatening cases, a key variable to study is patient survival, which is coded in the Survive variable as 1 if the patient lived to be discharged and 0 if the patient died.
Source
Data downloaded from The Data and Story Library (DASL), http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/Datafiles/ICU.html.