2 documents found, page 1 of 1
Preoperative Abnormalities in Serum Sodium Concentrations Are Associated with H...
Cecconi, M; Hochrieser, H; Chew, M; Grocott, M; Hoeft, A; Hoste, A; Jammer, I; Posch, M; Metnitz, P; Pelosi, P; Moreno, R; Pearse, RM; Vincent, JLBACKGROUND: Abnormal serum sodium concentrations are common in patients presenting for surgery. It remains unclear whether these abnormalities are independent risk factors for postoperative mortality. METHODS: This is a secondary analysis of the European Surgical Outcome Study (EuSOS) that provided data describing 46 539 patients undergoing inpatient non-cardiac surgery. Patients were included in this study if ...
Characterizing the Risk Profiles of Intensive Care Units
Moreno, R; Hochrieser, H; Metnitz, B; Bauer, P; Metnitz, POBJECTIVE: To develop a new method to evaluate the performance of individual ICUs through the calculation and visualisation of risk profiles. METHODS: The study included 102,561 patients consecutively admitted to 77 ICUs in Austria. We customized the function which predicts hospital mortality (using SAPS II) for each ICU. We then compared the risks of hospital mortality resulting from this function with the ris...