Fig. 13

SOFA scores for neurosurgical and non-neurosurgical referrals by working diagnosis (Item 3). Mean values for SOFA scores (bars) with standard deviations (whiskers) on admission (gray) and for maximum SOFA scores (white) from complete encounters are shown for a neurosurgical and b non-neurosurgical referrals. The tables to the right show the corresponding p-values from the Mann–Whitney-U test for all between-working diagnosis differences in on-admission and maximum SOFA scores, respectively, above and below the diagonal. c Mean SOFA scores (bars) ± standard deviations (whiskers) of all edited GTSQs are displayed for neurosurgical (gray) and non-neurosurgical (white) referrals. The table shows p-values from a generalized linear mixed model for all between-working diagnosis differences in neurosurgical and non-neurosurgical referrals, respectively, above and below the diagonal. In the tables (a–c), the absence of statistically significance is highlighted by p-values printed in bold