Imaging intensive care patients: multidisciplinary conferences as a quality improvement initiative to reduce medical error

Insights into Imaging

Table 2 Patient characteristics

Variable		Number	Percentage
No of patients		675
Sex	Male	571	58.7%
	Female	381	39.2%
	Unknown	21
Age mean (standard deviation (SD))	Total	61.4 years (± 17.5)
	Male	61.8 years
	Female	61.1 years
Time to MDC	Median (interquartile range (IQR))	2 days (2)
Examinations included		973
Examinations/MDC	Median (IQR)	4 (2)

Sex and time to multidisciplinary conference (MDC) were documented for individual examinations (n = 973). Patients who underwent multiple examinations discussed at one/several MDCs were enrolled for each of those examinations. Time to MDC was defined as the time between examination and MDC during which the examination was discussed