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Extreme Dysbiosis of the Microbiome in Critical Illness. [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +2 more sources

Statistical analysis plan for the Surgery for Cancer with Option of Palliative Care Expert (SCOPE) trial: a randomized controlled trial of a specialist palliative care intervention for patients undergoing surgery for cancer

open access: yesTrials, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Explainable artificial intelligence model to predict acute critical illness from electronic health records [PDF]

open access: yesNature Communications, 2019
Acute critical illness is often preceded by deterioration of routinely measured clinical parameters, e.g., blood pressure and heart rate. Early clinical prediction is typically based on manually calculated screening metrics that simply weigh these ...
S. Lauritsen   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Being in limbo: the experience of critical illness in intensive care and beyond [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Critical illness is a sudden traumatising lived experience that affects the sufferer and their family throwing them into a crisis situation. It is disruptive and alienating.
Higgins, Isabel   +2 more
core   +1 more source

An exploration of social and economic outcome and associated health-related quality of life after critical illness in general intensive care unit survivors: a 12-month follow-up study. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
INTRODUCTION: The socio-economic impact of critical illnesses on patients and their families in Europe has yet to be determined. The aim of this exploratory study was to estimate changes in family circumstances, social and economic stability, care ...
Bishop, J   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Defining critical illness using immunological endotypes in patients with and without sepsis: a cohort study

open access: yesCritical 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
doaj   +1 more source

Prediction of Critical Illness During Out-of-Hospital Emergency Care

open access: yes, 2010
CONTEXT: Early identification of nontrauma patients in need of critical care services in the emergency setting may improve triage decisions and facilitate regionalization of critical care.
Cooke, Colin   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Participant retention practices in longitudinal clinical research studies with high retention rates

open access: yesBMC Medical Research Methodology, 2017
Background There is a need for improving cohort retention in longitudinal studies. Our objective was to identify cohort retention strategies and implementation approaches used in studies with high retention rates.
Martha Abshire   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Acute skeletal muscle wasting and dysfunction predict physical disability at hospital discharge in patients with critical illness

open access: yesCritical Care, 2020
Patients surviving critical illness develop muscle weakness and impairments in physical function; however, the relationship between early skeletal muscle alterations and physical function at hospital discharge remains unclear. The primary purpose of this
K. Mayer   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

COVID-19 Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis: A Case Series

open access: yesActa Medica Indonesiana, 2022
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been a worldwide pandemic with several problems, one of which is the lack of definitive treatment. COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA), the presence of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) in COVID-
Mira Yulianti   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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