Serial Daily Organ Failure Assessment Beyond ICU Day 5 Does Not Independently Add Precision to ICU Risk-of-Death Prediction.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To identify circumstances in which repeated measures of organ failure would improve mortality prediction in ICU patients.

Design

Retrospective cohort study, with external validation in a deidentified ICU database.

Setting

Eleven ICUs in three university hospitals within an academic healthcare system in 2014.

Patients

Adults (18 yr old or older) who satisfied the following criteria: 1) two of four systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria plus an ordered blood culture, all within 24 hours of hospital admission; and 2) ICU admission for at least 2 calendar days, within 72 hours of emergency department presentation.

Intervention

NoneMEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:: Data were collected until death, ICU discharge, or the seventh ICU day, whic

SUBMITTER: Holder AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5693776 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature