Clinical Examination for the Prediction of Mortality in the Critically Ill: The Simple Intensive Care Studies-I.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Caregivers use clinical examination to timely recognize deterioration of a patient, yet data on the prognostic value of clinical examination are inconsistent. In the Simple Intensive Care Studies-I, we evaluated the association of clinical examination findings with 90-day mortality in critically ill patients.

Design

Prospective single-center cohort study.

Setting

ICU of a single tertiary care level hospital between March 27, 2015, and July 22, 2017.

Patients

All consecutive adults acutely admitted to the ICU and expected to stay for at least 24 hours.

Interventions

A protocolized clinical examination of 19 clinical signs conducted within 24 hours of admission.

Measurements main results

Independent predictors of 90-day mortality were ide

SUBMITTER: Hiemstra B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6750157 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature