Outcomes of ICU Patients With a Discharge Diagnosis of Critical Illness Polyneuromyopathy: A Propensity-Matched Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the impact of a discharge diagnosis of critical illness polyneuromyopathy on health-related outcomes in a large cohort of patients requiring ICU admission.

Design

Retrospective cohort with propensity score-matched analysis.

Setting

Analysis of a large multihospital database.

Patients

Adult ICU patients without preexisting neuromuscular abnormalities and a discharge diagnosis of critical illness polyneuropathy and/or myopathy along with adult ICU propensity-matched control patients.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Of 3,567 ICU patients with a discharge diagnosis of critical illness polyneuropathy and/or myopathy, we matched 3,436 of these patients to 3,436 ICU patients who did not have a discharge diagnosis of

SUBMITTER: Kelmenson DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5693740 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature