[PDF] Top 20 Patient-important outcomes in randomized controlled trials in critically ill patients: a systematic review

... of critically ill patients ...the patient perspective, clinical decision making by ICU physicians now pursues the goal of improving mean and long-term outcomes in survivors in addition ... See full document

... in critically ill patients over 48 h [69] or during treatment [70] and have also been used to evaluate the degree of organ dysfunction in sepsis ...assessing patient status, renal criteria can ... See full document

... included trials scored independently by two ...secondary outcomes included infectious complications, length of stay (LOS) and mechanical ...3347 patients met inclusion ...in trials where EN ... See full document

... clinical trials registries, and conference proceedings through November 2015 without language or publication date ...Only randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of PPIs vs H2RAs for stress ulcer ... See full document

... Critically ill patients frequently require tracheal intubation in the intensive care unit (ICU), in the emergency depart- ment (ED), or during in-hospital emergency in general wards ...[1–3]. ... See full document

... recent systematic reviews that evaluated intensive insulin therapy (IIT) in critically ill patients grouped the included randomized controlled trials (RCTs) by type of ... See full document

... trauma patients fed Immun-Aid (containing glutamine, arginine, omega-3-polyunsatu- rated fatty acids, nucleotides, and branched chain amino- acids) vs Vivonex (standard enteral formulae) ...trauma patients, ... See full document

... eighteen Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) met all inclusion ...3,383 patients were reported in 17 ...15 trials, which included a total of 2,862 patients, glutamine ... See full document

... article. Critically ill patients have a high risk of malnu- trition ...our review, EEN compared to DEN, there was a significant reduction in the incidence of infectious complications (RR- ... See full document

... individual trials using the Cochrane risk of bias ...the outcomes, we independently rated the overall quality of evidence and confidence in effect estimates using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, ... See full document

... the systematic review (randomized controlled trials and long-term follow-up studies derived from the randomized controlled ...to patients with anorexia nervosa; 2) ... See full document

... Figure 2 shows the 9-node NMA of eligible comparisons for mortality, and the results are presented as a league table in Figure 3. The 9-node NMA results showed that there was no significant difference among resuscitation ... See full document

... Peer Review for Electronic Search Strategies (PRESS) template [22, ...domized controlled trial filter and perform a separate search for published systematic reviews and protocols in the Cochrane ... See full document

... design, randomized controlled trials; (b) population, adult (>18 years old) critically ill patients in the ICU; (c) intervention, comparison between daily bathing with ... See full document

... ally ill patients should include lower risk of acquired in- fections including wound infections, pressure sores, and muscle mass loss; shorter duration of mechanical venti- lation; shorter ICU and hospital ... See full document

... J. Randomized trial of short-course radiotherapy versus long-course chemoradiation comparing rates of local recurrence in patients with t3 rectal cancer: Trans-tasman radiation oncology group trial ...JC. ... See full document

... further review of the full-text in accordance with the inclusion and exclusion ...adults critically ill patients (age ≥ 18 years) admitted to the ...mary outcomes were clinically ... See full document

... this review investigated the rate of tooth movement in alignment, two of which were the different parts of a same RCT [17, ...clinical trials) are included for this outcome, and the methodological flaws are ... See full document

... to review the current evidence on the effectiveness of exercise therapy on gait function in patients with diabetic peripheral ...Scholar. Randomized control trials conducted to determine the ... See full document

... ICU patients with sus- pected or confirmed 2009 H1N1 influenza have included between 16 and 52 patients, and, accordingly, they have major inherent limitations ...criteria, patient selection and ... See full document