ICU Mortality
Relationship between thyroid function and ICU mortality: a prospective observation study
... Continuous variables are presented as mean values ± SD or medians and ranges, and categorical variables are expressed as percentages. CRP and NT-proBNP values were logarithmically normalized and are presented as log(CRP) ...
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Original Article Summed score of initial chest radiograph and APACHE II preferably evaluates illness severity and accurately predicts ICU mortality in severe avian influenza H7N9
... of ICU mortality than a single radio- graphic ...to ICU mortality, this combined score can function as a better indicator for both evaluation of ill- ness severity and prediction of ...of ...
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Gastric tonometry guided therapy in critical care patients: a systematic review and meta analysis
... hospital mortality, total mortality and ICU ...were ICU length of stay, hospital length of stay and days ...or mortality rate (Table ...into mortality rates. Two studies reported ...
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Characteristics of critically ill cancer patients in the Netherlands
... and mortality in unselected surgical patient populations [29-33] and many investigations studied postoperative mortality of elective cancer surgery ...the ICU after elective surgery; this study, ...
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Impact of ICU acquired weakness on post ICU physical functioning: a follow up study
... Introduction: ICU-acquired weakness is thought to mediate physical impairments in survivors of critical illness, but few studies have investigated this ...post-ICU mortality and physical functioning ...
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Variations in the length of stay of intensive care unit nonsurvivors in three scandinavian countries
... Because ICU mortality is influenced by organizational factors in hospitals and health systems, hospital mortal- ity is generally regarded as a better outcome ...hospital mortality when comparing ...
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Variation in rates of ICU readmissions and post ICU in hospital mortality and their association with ICU discharge practices
... post-ICU mortality rates for each hospital by dividing the observed number of readmissions or deaths by the expected num- ber of readmissions or ...for ICU level (in which level 1 are the least and ...
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Community Acquired Severe Sepsis: A Prospective Cohort Study
... mixed ICU, in a 600-bed university-affiliated ...the ICU, 25% with ...median ICU and hospital length of stay were 8 and 16 days, respec- ...The ICU mortality rate was ...higher ...
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Patients with preexisting psychiatric disorders admitted to ICU: a descriptive and retrospective cohort study
... lower mortality rate than admissions for other ...with ICU mortality. This finding highlights that ICU outcome mainly depends on physiologic alterations responsible for ICU ...the ...
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Preventable mortality evaluation in the ICU
... standardized mortality ratio or case-mix-adjusted mortality is a more relevant measure to evaluate mortality because risk adjustment is ...standardized mortality ratio gives little information ...
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Skeletal muscle predicts ventilator free days, ICU free days, and mortality in elderly ICU patients
... the ICU following injury had an abdominal CT scan that encompassed L3 and could subsequently be used for evaluation of muscle and fat ...of ICU admission, in- dependent of their ...
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Trends in intensive care unit admissions of COPD patients from 2003 to 2013 in Taiwan
... This trend may also apply to other countries. Aging occurs in other parts of the world and is associated with an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and complex medical conditions. Such shifts in demographic ...
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Eosinophil count at intensive care unit admission was not predictor of hospital mortality: results of a case control study
... at ICU ad- mission, daily eosinophil count during ICU stay, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) score, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) scale and in-hospital ...one ...
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Statistical process control of mortality series in the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) adult patient database: implications of the data generating process
... raw mortality series were established, to formal time-series ...underlying mortality estimates from a random coefficient model are obligatorily “smoothed” (see also Figure 1), no ARCH effects, representing ...
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The impact of smoking on patient outcomes in severe sepsis and septic shock
... pro-inflammatory mediators, including TNFα, interleu- kin 6 and 8 NF-κB [27–30]. Furthermore, smoking in- creases levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines, including tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha and interleukin (IL)-6 ...
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High red blood cell distribution width as a marker of hospital mortality after ICU discharge: a cohort study
... after ICU discharge; this research led to the Saba- dell score in 2006 ...that ICU surveillance after discharge is a grow- ing wave, but needs to clearly frame those patients with a higher likelihood for ...
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Hospital acquired Acute Kidney Injury is associated with increased mortality but not increased readmission rates in a UK acute hospital
... high mortality rates with which it is associated, and has attracted considerable attention as being a reversible fac- tor, that is preventable, with lives saved as a result ...day mortality AKI stage and ...
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The safety and efficacy of nicotine replacement therapy in the intensive care unit: a randomised controlled pilot study
... Patients were treated with nicotine patches (Nicotinell ® TTS 20 and 30, Novartis Consumer Health) or similar size and shape, placebo patches (DuoDerm ® Extra Thin, ConvaTec), both subsequently covered by an opaque ...
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Contrasting effects of preexisting hyperglycemia and higher body size on hospital mortality in critically ill patients: a prospective cohort study
... and mortality [14,15], and others finding that low body mass index (BMI) is associated with increased mortality [15-17], or that excess weight is a negative prognostic factor ...in ICU patients did ...
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Mortality and detailed characteristics of pre-ICU qSOFA-negative patients with suspected sepsis: an observational study
... bodily shaking, even under a thick blanket. Physicians were instructed to record the degree of chills when they suspected bacteremia in daily practice. We described the primary site of infection as bloodstream, ...
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