An observational study on the impact of overcrowding towards door-to-antibiotic time among sepsis patients presented to emergency department of a tertiary academic hospital

Table 2 DTA time and patients’ outcome according to ED condition

All patients = 170	ED overcrowded (N = 78)	ED not overcrowded (N = 92)	p-value
DTA time, median in minutes (IQR)	143 (32–677)	150 (27–553)	0.989^b
Patients’ outcome
In-hospital mortality, no (%)	27 (34.6)	19 (20.7)	0.041^a*
LOS, median in days, (IQR)	5 (0–47)	6 (0–25)	0.403^b

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