Risk factors for mortality in patients admitted to intensive care units with pneumonia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the high mortality in patients with pneumonia admitted to an ICU, data on risk factors for death remain limited.

Methods

In this secondary analysis of PROTECT (Prophylaxis for Thromboembolism in Critical Care Trial), we focused on the patients admitted to ICU with a primary diagnosis of pneumonia. The primary outcome for this study was 90-day hospital mortality and the secondary outcome was 90-day ICU mortality. Cox regression model was conducted to examine the relationship between baseline and time-dependent variables and hospital and ICU mortality.

Results

Six hundred sixty seven patients admitted with pneumonia (43.8 % females) were included in our analysis, with a mean age of 60.7 years and mean APACHE II score of 21.3. During follow-up, 111 pat

SUBMITTER: Li G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4940754 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature