Red cell distribution width at hospital discharge and out-of hospital outcomes in critically ill non-cardiac vascular surgery patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Red cell distribution width (RDW) is associated with mortality and bloodstream infection risk in the critically ill. In vascular surgery patients surviving critical care it is not known if RDW can predict subsequent risk of all-cause mortality following hospital discharge. We hypothesized that an increase in RDW at hospital discharge in vascular surgery patients who received critical care would be associated with increased mortality following hospital discharge.

Design, setting, and participants

We performed a two-center observational cohort study of critically ill non-cardiac vascular surgery patients surviving admission 18 years or older treated between November, 1997, and December 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Exposures

RDW measured within 24 hours of ho

SUBMITTER: von Meijenfeldt GCI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6124728 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature