[PDF] Top 20 Weight as a Risk Factor for Mortality in Critically Ill Patients

... mortality, variables to be tested included those significant (P # .05) in the bivariate analysis used to compare surviving and nonsurviving cohort members. Logistic regression models were constructed by using ... See full document

... of patients treated with ...AKI patients is extremely variable and based primarily on empiricism and local institutional practice and resources ...For patients with uncomplicated AKI, it has been ... See full document

... ventilated critically ill patients included adult patients in whom a computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen was made on clinical indication between 1 day before and 4 days after ... See full document

... a risk factor for the development of DM ...prognostic factor in critically ill patients is controversial, and possibly in- fluenced by the presence of DM ...and mortality ... See full document

... assess patients’ illness severity and thus improve the estimated risk of mortal- ity, compared with the APACHE II score ...predicting risk of hospital mortality, adding more information such ... See full document

... critically ill patients have been published, which were de- signed to study normalisation of vitamin D levels and its possible adverse effects such as hypercalcaemia and hyper- calciuria ...ICU ... See full document

... a risk factor for ICU admission and also an independent risk for mortality after admission to the ...with weight loss, and the over-representation of low- weight patients ... See full document

... the mortality rate between these three groups of ...Hypomagnesemic patients more frequently had total and ionized hypocalcemia, hypokalemia, and ...23 patients developed ionized hypomagnesemia during ... See full document

... nificant independent factors of in-hospital and ICU mortality in the present study. Lower FEV 1 suggests increased severity of COPD and therefore, should theoretically be associated with worse outcomes for ... See full document

... of critically ill patients are ...patient-related risk factors can be identified, the rate of equipment-related adverse events may be as high as one-third of all ...In patients who ... See full document

... of patients with missing data, either microbiologic or clinical led to a reduced sample ...and mortality to account for poten- tially confounding and misleading ... See full document

... main risk factor for developing CDI is previous antibiotic therapy which disrupts the patients’ indigen- ous intestinal flora ...Other risk factors in hospital- ized patients are low ... See full document

... contributing factor to increased sepsis incidence and severity ...analyzed mortality and available clinical data on infectious diseases in a large, retrospective data set of mixed critically ... See full document

... to critically ill ...high mortality groups such as pa- tients receiving extracorporeal support with ECMO and chronic renal replacement therapy because these pa- tients often received other blood ... See full document

... ICU mortality and ...in-hospital mortality compared to younger ...elderly patients showed increased risk of in-hospital mortality (Hazard Ratio (HR) = ...younger patients. While ... See full document

... All other covariates were chosen a priori on the basis of clinical judgment and previous research, owing to their expected associations with antimicrobial exposure (independent variable) and with delirium (dependent ... See full document

... the mortality among patients admitted to the ICU during each respective insulin protocol implementa- tion period (study period), using one-way analysis of variance or frequency tables, as ...model ... See full document

... able risk factor for mortality, research into its impact on neonatal outcomes is critical to provide information to clinicians about fl uid provision and the timing of renal replacement ...the ... See full document

... lowest mortality occurs at optimal ...and mortality held for age groups as young as 1 to 5 years of age (Fig 2, Supplemental Table ...and mortality, this finding does not imply ...illness-adjusted ... See full document

... 2 patients had no corticosteroid exposure), leaving 605 ...hospital mortality and potential risk factors, in- cluding corticosteroid ...20 patients with missing outcome data, leaving a sample ... See full document