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Mortality in an ICU of a tertiary hospital [PDF]
Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, 2015 Evaluation of mortality showed that in many ICU mortality in critically ill patients may range from 6.4% to 40% despite best care provided [1, 2]. This variability is considerable and persistent even after adjustment based on the characteristics of the patient on admission [3–8].
Neto Real, AM +7 more
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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 ObjectiveAlbumin-corrected calcium is usually calculated to reflect the real serum calcium level of the whole body by physicians. However, studies on the association between albumin-corrected calcium and 30-day in-hospital mortality in Intensive Care ...
Xun Qin +10 more
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Learning from hospital mortality [PDF]
Clinical Medicine, 2016 Understanding and learning from hospital deaths is an important component of good clinical practice but current approaches and measures are complex, controversial and difficult to understand. Patients who die are not a homogeneous group but fall into three distinct categories; most learning will be achieved by recognising this and investigating ...
Kevin, Stewart +2 more
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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023 BackgroundFew studies have assessed the relationship between weight-for-height (WHZ) and mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) with hospital mortality considering confounders.
Gaylord Ngaboyeka +16 more
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Hospital standardized mortality ratios [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2008 We do not agree with Kaveh Shojania and Alan Forster's assessment of the value of reporting hospital standardized mortality ratios.[1][1] Our view is that the public reporting of hospital standardized mortality ratios in Canada provides a useful and much needed focus on the quality of health care.
Greg, Webster, Eugene, Wen
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Trends in Hospital and Surgeon Volume and Operative Mortality for Cancer Surgery [PDF]
, 2006 Background: We measured 13-year trends in operative mortality for six cancer resections. We then examined whether these trends are driven by changes in hospital and surgeon volume or by changes that occurred among all providers, regardless of volume ...
Ho, Vivian +3 more
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2023 BackgroundIn patients with sepsis, elevated lactate has been shown to be a strong predictor of in-hospital mortality. However, the optimal cutoff for rapidly stratifying patients presenting to the emergency department at risk for increased in-hospital ...
Brenda Gicheru +5 more
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Mortality after the Hospitalization of a Spouse [PDF]
New England Journal of Medicine, 2006 The illness of a spouse can affect the health of a caregiving partner. We examined the association between the hospitalization of a spouse and a partner's risk of death among elderly people.We studied 518,240 couples who were enrolled in Medicare in 1993.
Nicholas A, Christakis, Paul D, Allison
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Effect of case management on neonatal mortality due to sepsis and pneumonia. [PDF]
, 2011 BACKGROUND: Each year almost one million newborns die from infections, mostly in low-income countries. Timely case management would save many lives but the relative mortality effect of varying strategies is unknown.
Bhutta Zulfiqar A +28 more
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