[PDF] Top 20 Mortality among patients with tuberculosis requiring intensive care: a retrospective cohort study

... Porto Alegre is the city with the highest acquired immu- nodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) incidence in Brazil (68.7 cases/100.000 population) [1]. In our hospital, in 2008 for example, we had approximately 29.000 ... See full document

... institution-based retrospective cohort study was conducted between April, 2009 and January, ...co-infected patients were categorized into “ On ART ” and “ Non-ART ” ...overall mortality ... See full document

... A retrospective cohort study was conducted among HIV infected patients on ART in eastern ...1540 study participants were included in the ...registered patients in the ... See full document

... increase mortality in the high-risk PICU-patient. The objective of this study is to determine if CCCs or other factors are associated with mortality in this ...Methods: Retrospective ... See full document

... TB mortality observed in a tertiary health centre may reflect marked delays in diagnosis; poor ac- cess to care among vulnerable populations; and unrecog- nised co-existing ...TB care more ... See full document

... of mortality, ICU admission, or colectomy [18, 27, ...many patients with CDI are already in the ICU at the time of CDI ...our study, we assessed the secondary outcome of prolonged length of ICU stay ... See full document

... as patients who died in the ...as patients with a CCC if either the primary diagnosis, underlying diagnosis or first additional diagnosis was a CCC [ 6 , 7 ...]. Patients were classified as hav- ing ... See full document

... this study did not include non-HIV- infected patients with PTB as a proper control group, which could strengthen the conclusions of our ...this cohort could be a bias to more precisely estimate the ... See full document

... 3-year study period, 1,335,379 patients were ad- mitted to 629 hospitals across 11 provinces and territories from the ED with one of the 37 mortality-related emer- gency sensitive diagnosis groups ... See full document

... This study failed to demonstrate a relation between days of continuous cover by a single intensivist or grade of physician staffing at nighttime and risk-adjusted acute hospital mortality in patients ... See full document

... A retrospective cohort study was conducted using the database of the Dutch National Intensive Care Evaluation (NICE) ...consecutive patients admitted between 1 January 2003 and ... See full document

... population-based cohort study in a large Canadian health region, we found that approxi- mately one-third of all ICU admissions occurred after- ...ICUs. Patients admitted afterhours were younger, had ... See full document

... in patients with pelvis fractures needing intensive care have not previously been ...registry study were to 1) determine the number of ICU patients with pelvis fractures who had severe ... See full document

... Our study identifies several easily recognizable factors that could be targeted to reduce TB ...TB patients. Secondly, we recommend a triple strategy among those infected with ...TB patients, ... See full document

... 11 patients who were admitted to the ICU for full support, but when NIV failed to avert ARF, a decision was made not to intubate, but rather offer palliative ...These patients were not excluded from the ... See full document

... five patients are discharged from the ICU at nighttime. Patients discharged at night were more likely medical, had more comorbid disease, and were more severely ill at the time of ICU admission as compared ... See full document

... that patients admitted during round time had higher likelihoods to be transferred from the ward and to be medical (non- operative) and were characterized by a higher burden of comorbid illness and greater illness ... See full document

... in patients admitted for short-term routine post-surgical recovery, as well as with a decision against ...older patients with a priori explicit strong wish not to be aggressively treated are unlikely to be ... See full document

... male patients in this study, which agrees with the findings other studies in the Brazilian context that observed a higher incidence and prevalence of TB/HIV among male ...coinfection among ... See full document

... included patients not receiving any anti-diabetic drugs in the comparison group of ...same mortality in this group as in other non-users, probably because this group comprised a mix of mild and ... See full document