Week-One Anaemia was Associated with Increased One-Year Mortality in Critically Ill Surgical Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Anaemia has a deleterious effect on surgical patients, but the long-term impact of anaemia in critically ill surgical patients remains unclear.

Methods

We enrolled consecutive patients who were admitted to surgical intensive care units (ICUs) at a tertiary referral centre in central Taiwan between 2015 and 2020. We used both Cox proportional hazards analysis and propensity score-based analyses, including propensity score matching (PSM), inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW), and covariate balancing propensity score (CBPS) to determine hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for one-year mortality.

Results

A total of 7,623 critically ill surgical patients were enrolled, and 29.9% (2,280/7,623) of them had week-one anaemia (haemoglo

SUBMITTER: Wu FH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9470355 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature