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Effect of critical illness insurance on the medical expenditures of rural patients in China: an interrupted time series study for universal health insurance coverage. [PDF]
, 2021 OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to determine if critical illness insurance (CII) promotes the universal health coverage to reduce out-of-pocket (OOP) medical expenditures and improve the effective reimbursement rate (ERR) in rural China.
Chen, Shanquan +4 more
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Chronic Critical Illness [PDF]
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2010 Although advances in intensive care have enabled more patients to survive an acute critical illness, they also have created a large and growing population of chronically critically ill patients with prolonged dependence on mechanical ventilation and other intensive care therapies.
Aluko A. Hope +3 more
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Antimicrobial exposure and the risk of delirium in critically ill patients
Critical Care, 2018 Background Prior retrospective cross-sectional work has associated antimicrobials with a non-specific phrase: encephalopathy without seizures. The purpose of this study is to determine whether different classes of antimicrobials have differential ...
Jessica J. Grahl +8 more
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AKI patients have worse long-term outcomes, especially in the immediate post-ICU period [PDF]
, 2012 Acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with worse outcome in the acute phase of acute illness but also in the chronic phase. In a large Danish study in this issue of Critical Care, 1-year mortality was higher in patients with AKI than in patients ...
De Corte, Wouter, Hoste, Eric
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Risk of critical illness among patients with solid cancers: a population-based observational study of 118,541 adults [PDF]
, 2015 Importance: Critical illness may be a potential determinant of cancer outcomes and geographic variations, but its role has not been described before. Objective: To determine the incidence of admission to intensive care units (ICUs) within 2 years ...
Kinsella, John +5 more
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Head and Neck Critical Illness [PDF]
, 2021 There are various malignant tumors in the head and neck area, including oral cavity, pharynx, sinonasal cavity, and salivary glands. Squamous cell carcinoma is the most common cancer among head and neck cancers.
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Interventions for preventing critical illness polyneuropathy and critical illness myopathy [PDF]
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2007 Critical illness polyneuro-and/or myopathy (CIP/CIM) is an important and frequent complication in the intensive care unit (ICU), causing delayed weaning from mechanical ventilation. It may increase ICU stay and mortality.To examine the ability of any intervention to prevent the occurrence of CIP/CIM.We searched the Cochrane Neuromuscular Disease Group ...
Hermans, Greet +3 more
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Critical Care, 2023 Background Sepsis is a heterogenous syndrome with limited therapeutic options. Identifying immunological endotypes through gene expression patterns in septic patients may lead to targeted interventions.
Jeremy A. Balch +8 more
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Extreme Dysbiosis of the Microbiome in Critical Illness. [PDF]
, 2016 Critical illness is hypothesized to associate with loss of "health-promoting" commensal microbes and overgrowth of pathogenic bacteria (dysbiosis). This dysbiosis is believed to increase susceptibility to nosocomial infections, sepsis, and organ failure.
Christine Baird +12 more
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Trials, 2021 Background The impact of specialist palliative care intervention in patients undergoing surgery for cancer has not been studied extensively. The SCOPE randomized controlled trial will investigate the effect of specialist palliative care intervention in ...
Onur M. Orun +7 more
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