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Association of admission hematocrit with 6-month and 1-year mortality in intensive care unit patients
- Source :
- Transfusion. 51:2148-2159
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2011.
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Abstract
- BACKGROUND: This study examined the association of hematocrit (Hct) levels measured upon intensive care unit (ICU) admission and red blood cell transfusions to long-term (1-year or 180-day) mortality for both surgical and medical patients. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: Administrative and laboratory data were collected retrospectively on 2393 consecutive medical and surgical male patients admitted to the ICU between 2003 and 2009. We stratified patients based on their median Hct level during the first 24 hours of their ICU stay (Hct
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Anemia
Proportional hazards model
Immunology
Hazard ratio
Hematology
Hematocrit
medicine.disease
Intensive care unit
Confidence interval
Surgery
law.invention
surgical procedures, operative
law
hemic and lymphatic diseases
Internal medicine
medicine
Risk of mortality
Immunology and Allergy
1 year mortality
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00411132
- Volume :
- 51
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Transfusion
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........613f1697794a8e7348cb98a1a224d5cb