Variation in monitoring: Glucose measurement in the ICU as a case study to preempt spurious correlations.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Health inequities can be influenced by demographic factors such as race and ethnicity, proficiency in English, and biological sex. Disparities may manifest as differential likelihood of testing which correlates directly with the likelihood of an intervention to address an abnormal finding. Our retrospective observational study evaluated the presence of variation in glucose measurements in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Methods

Using the MIMIC-IV database (2008-2019), a single-center, academic referral hospital in Boston (USA), we identified adult patients meeting sepsis-3 criteria. Exclusion criteria were diabetic ketoacidosis, ICU length of stay under 1 day, and unknown race or ethnicity. We performed a logistic regression analysis to assess differential likelihoo

SUBMITTER: Teotia K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11103268 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature