Adverse Events in Pediatric Critical Care Nonsurvivors With a Low Predicted Mortality Risk: A Multicenter Case Control Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Some patients with a low predicted mortality risk in the PICU die. The contribution of adverse events to mortality in this group is unknown. The aim of this study was to estimate the occurrence of adverse events in low-risk nonsurvivors (LN), compared with low-risk survivors (LS) and high-risk PICU survivors and nonsurvivors, and the contribution of adverse events to mortality.

Design

Case control study. Admissions were selected from the national Dutch PICU registry, containing 53,789 PICU admissions between 2006 and 2017, in seven PICUs. PICU admissions were stratified into four groups, based on mortality risk (low/high) and outcome (death/survival). Random samples were selected from the four groups. Cases were "LN." Control groups were as follows: "LS," "high-ri

SUBMITTER: Verlaat CW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9799043 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature