Báo cáo y học: "Risk factors for delirium in intensive care patients: a prospective cohort study" ppt

... physical restraints and relatives visiting the patient. Statistical approach and analysis Continuous or categorical data were transformed to factors with a binary score. Cut-off values were based ... uni- versity hospital and one community hospital. The two scores were transformed in a binary scoring factor 'high risk for mor- tality' indicating an APACHE II of at least 24...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... for statistical analysis. Analysis For each bladder volume in each patient, mean IBP was recorded and absolute bias was calculated. The absolute bias for each volume was calculated as IBP at a given ... estimate IAP by IBP may cause clinically relevant overestimation of IAP and hence a false increase in the prevalence and incidence of IAH and ACS. Bladder compliance varies withi...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:24

... intolerance; IAH, intra-abdominal hypertension; IAP, intra-abdominal pressure; ICU, intensive care unit; MAP, mean arterial pressure; MV, mechanical ventilation; PEEP, positive end-expiratory ... Page 2 of 2 (page number not for citation purposes) Critical Care Vol 12 No 6 Reintam et al. Table 2 Admission and outcome parameters of study patients IAH FI Admission parameters Total Absen...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... that those individuals for whom we could not obtain information differed systematically from those included in the study. Our ascertainment methods for cases and controls may have been an additional ... study area and only 1% did not have an informant. Informants (most commonly family members) were approached to take part in the study at the time they vis- ited the Department of Foren...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... anemia, hypotension) and labo- ratory variables (hypocalcemia, hyponatremia, azotemia, ele- vated liver enzymes, hyperamylasemia, hyperbilirubinemia, and metabolic acidosis) were predicting factors ... diseases, infections, fever, anemia, hypotension, hypocalcemia, hyponatremia, azotemia, elevated liver enzymes, hyperamylasemia, hyperbilirubinemia and metabolic acidosis were predicting fac...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... based on data available in hospital information systems [9]. However, preliminary results suggest that diagnosis coding in economic databases is inconsistent between physicians and administrative ... administra- tive and physiological data and of severity scores. The contact physicians for the database in the participating ICUs are listed in Additional file 1 and have been accredite...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... for asthma care, including whether subjects had a regular site for asthma care, a principal care provider for asthma, medical insurance for outpatient asthma care, and an annual deduction for outpatient ... factors for asthma-related hospitalization, taking baseline asthma severity into account. Because asthma severity may act on the causal pathway between a risk fact...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... available online: Additional file 1 Additional file 1 contains information on the required data format and SAS and R calculations for cause-specific hazard ratios in a competing risks analysis with ... study. MB created the data- base and online platform for the KISS system. SB and CG par- Table 3 Multivariate analysis of cause-specific hazard ratios for mortality on intensive...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... blood gas analysis by a critical care specialist. In neutropenic patients and in patients undergoing neutrope- nia recovery, clinically documented pneumonia was defined as new pulmonary infiltrates ... leukemia patients; disap- pearance of peripheral and deep lymphadenopathy, and other malignant foci in lymphoma patients; and disappearance of monoclonal immunoglobulin in blood and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... imipenem/cilastatin (68%) and piperacillin/tazobactam (53%). The best adequacy for EA was obtained by combinations of imipenem/cilastatin or piperacillin/tazobactam, amikacin and a glycopept ide, with values ... MDR organisms and the adequacy of EA. Statistical analysis Results are expressed as mean ± standard deviation, and as percentages for categorical variables. All analyses were pe...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21