Assessment of Intensive Care Unit Laboratory Values That Differ From Reference Ranges and Association With Patient Mortality and Length of Stay.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Laboratory data are frequently collected throughout the care of critically ill patients. Currently, these data are interpreted by comparison with values from healthy outpatient volunteers. Whether this is the most useful comparison has yet to be demonstrated.

Objectives

To understand how the distribution of intensive care unit (ICU) laboratory values differs from the reference range, and how these distributions are related to patient outcomes.

Design, setting, and participants

Cross-sectional study of a large critical care database, the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care database, from January 1, 2001, to October 31, 2012. The database is collected from ICU data from a large tertiary medical center in Boston, Massachusetts. The data are collected f

SUBMITTER: Tyler PD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324400 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature