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Association Among ICU Congestion, ICU Admission Decision, and Patient Outcomes
(LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, 2016)
Objectives: To employ automated bed data to examine whether ICU occupancy influences ICU admission decisions and patient outcomes.
Design: Retrospective study using an instrumental variable to remove biases from ...
Impacto do processo de internação em UTI na funcionalidade de pacientes adultos ventilados mecanicamente
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMG, 2013-02-22)
Introduction: Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients generally develop general muscle weakness in consequence of the inactivity, prolonged use of mechanical ventilation (MV), nutrition conditions, inflammation and pharmacological ...
Contribution of Two-Dose Vaccination Toward the Reduction of COVID-19 Cases, ICU Hospitalizations and Deaths in Chile Assessed Through Explanatory Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale, and Shape
(2022)
Objectives: To assess the impact of the initial two-dose-schedule mass vaccination campaign in Chile toward reducing adverse epidemiological outcomes due to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Methods: Publicly available epidemiological ...
ICU admission control: an empirical study of capacity allocation and its implication for patient outcomes
(Informs, 2015)
This work examines the process of admission to a hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU). ICUs currently lack
systematic admission criteria, largely because the impact of ICU admission on patient outcomes has not
been well ...
Failure to reduce C-reactive protein levels more than 25% in the last 24 hours before intensive care unit discharge predicts higher in-hospital mortality: A cohort study
(W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INCPHILADELPHIA, 2012)
Purpose: To discharge a patient from the intensive care unit (ICU) is a complex decision-making process because in-hospital mortality after critical illness may be as high as up to 27%. Static C-reactive protein (CRP) ...
Light and the outcome of the critically ill: an observational cohort study
(2012)
Abstract
Introduction
Light before and during acute illness has been associated with both benefit and harm in animal models and small human studies. Our objective was to ...