Nucleated red blood cells, critical illness survivors and postdischarge outcomes: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about risk factors associated with out-of-hospital outcomes in survivors of critical illness. We hypothesized that the presence of nucleated red blood cells in patients who survived critical care would be associated with adverse outcomes following hospital discharge.

Methods

We performed a two-center observational cohort study of patients treated in medical and surgical intensive care units in Boston, Massachusetts. All data were obtained from the Research Patient Data Registry at Partners HealthCare. We studied 2878 patients, age ≥ 18 years, who received critical care between 2011 and 2015 and survived hospitalization. The exposure of interest was nucleated red blood cells occurring from 2 days prior to 7 days after critical care initiation. The p

SUBMITTER: Purtle SW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5479031 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature