Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Jul 2018
Multicenter StudyIncreased risk of death and readmission after hospital discharge of critically ill patients in a developing country: a retrospective multicenter cohort study.
To describe long-term mortality and hospital readmissions of patients admitted to Brazilian intensive care units (ICU). ⋯ In a public healthcare system of a developing country, ICU patients have excessive long-term mortality and frequent readmissions. The ICU burden tended to reduce over time after hospital discharge.
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Intensive care medicine · Jul 2018
Withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining therapy in older adults (≥ 80 years) admitted to the intensive care unit.
To document and analyse the decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment (LST) in a population of very old patients admitted to the ICU. ⋯ The most important patient variables associated with the instigation of LST limitation were acute admission, frailty, age, admission SOFA score and country.
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Intensive care medicine · Jul 2018
Correction to: Infection-related ventilator-associated complications in ICU patients colonised with extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae.
The members of the OUTCOMEREA Study Group were provided in such a way that they could not be indexed as collaborators on PubMed. The publisher apologizes for this error and is pleased to list the members of the group here.
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A population-level description and analysis of sepsis-related mortality in China is key to the planning and assessment of interventional strategies. ⋯ The standardized sepsis-related mortality rate in China was high and varied according to socioeconomic indices, even though some uncertainty remained.