A competing risk analysis for hospital length of stay in patients with burns.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Current outcome predictors for illness and injury are measured at a single time point-admission. However, patient prognosis often changes during hospitalization, limiting the usefulness of those predictions. Accurate depiction of the dynamic interaction between competing events during hospitalization may enable real-time outcome assessment.

Objective

To determine how the effects of burn outcome predictors (ie, age, total body surface area burn, and inhalation injury) and the outcomes of interest (ie, mortality and length of stay) vary as a function of time throughout hospitalization.

Design, setting, and participants

In this retrospective study, we used the American Burn Association's National Burn Repository, containing outcomes and patient and injury char

SUBMITTER: Taylor SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4968081 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature