The Association of Laboratory Test Abnormalities With Mortality Risk in Pediatric Intensive Care.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the bivariable associations between abnormalities of 28 common laboratory tests and hospital mortality and determine how mortality risks changes when the ranges are evaluated in the context of commonly used laboratory test panels.

Design

A 2009-2016 cohort from the Health Facts (Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO) database.

Setting

Hospitals caring for children in ICUs.

Patients

Children cared for in ICUs with laboratory data.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

There were 2,987,515 laboratory measurements in 71,563 children. The distribution of laboratory test values in 10 groups defined by population percentiles demonstrated the midrange of tests was within the normal range except for those measured predomi

SUBMITTER: Pollack MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7855885 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature