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Grade 7 school performance of children born preterm: a retrospective Canadian Cohort study
Data on the middle school outcomes of preterm children are limited and have methodologic issues.
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Open AccessThe Effect of Frailty on Independent Living After Surgery: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study
Most people value quality of life over mere duration. At least 50% of people are extremely averse to ever living in a nursing home (NH).
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Open AccessProtocol for a sco** review of sepsis epidemiology
Sepsis is a common, life-threatening syndrome of physiologic, pathologic, and biochemical abnormalities that are caused by infection and propagated by a dysregulated immune response. In 2017, the estimated ann...
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Association of patient-to-intensivist ratio with hospital mortality in Australia and New Zealand
The impact of intensivist workload on intensive care unit (ICU) outcomes is incompletely described and assessed across healthcare systems and countries. We sought to examine the association of patient-to-inten...
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Medical dominos: impact of COVID-19 care on the health of the population
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Open AccessReassessing access to intensive care using an estimate of the population incidence of critical illness
The consistently observed male predominance of patients in intensive care units (ICUs) has raised concerns about gender-based disparities in ICU access. Comparing rates of ICU admission requires choosing a nor...
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Open AccessAnemia prevalence and incidence and red blood cell transfusion practices in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: results of a multicenter cohort study
Whether a restrictive strategy for red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is applied to patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) is unclear. To inform the design and conduct of a future clinical trial...
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Open AccessAssociation between afterhours admission to the intensive care unit, strained capacity, and mortality: a retrospective cohort study
Admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) outside daytime hours has been shown to be variably associated with increased morbidity and mortality. We aimed to describe the characteristics and outcomes of patien...
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Open AccessHow well does the minimum data set measure healthcare use? a validation study
To improve care, planners require accurate information about nursing home (NH) residents and their healthcare use. We evaluated how accurately measures of resident user status and healthcare use were captured ...
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Recovery after critical illness in patients aged 80 years or older: a multi-center prospective observational cohort study
Increasingly, very old patients are admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICUs). The objective of this study was to describe 12-month outcomes of these patients and determine which characteristics are associated w...
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Open AccessTwo distinct Do-Not-Resuscitate protocols leaving less to the imagination: an observational study using propensity score matching
Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) patients tend to receive less medical care after the order is written. To provide a clearer approach, the Ohio Department of Health adopted the Do-Not-Resuscitate law in 1998, indicati...
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Distinct determinants of long-term and short-term survival in critical illness
To identify the determinants of short-term and long-term survival in adult patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs).
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Intensivist and Alternative Models of ICU Staffing
In many ways, the leader of a critical care team is the senior physician—the intensivist. In considering the organization of intensive care, it is important to understand the roles and responsibilities of this...
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Open AccessA population-based analysis of leaving the hospital against medical advice: incidence and associated variables
Prior studies of patients leaving hospital against medical advice (AMA) have been limited by not being population-based or assessing only one type of patient.
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Open AccessEpidemiology of critically ill patients in intensive care units: a population-based observational study
Epidemiologic assessment of critically ill people in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) is needed to ensure the health care system can meet current and future needs. However, few such studies have been published.
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Open AccessConstructing episodes of inpatient care: data infrastructure for population-based research
Databases used to study the care of patients in hospitals and Intensive Care Units (ICUs) typically contain a separate entry for each segment of hospital or ICU care. However, it is not uncommon for patients t...
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Figuring out what works: a need for more and better studies on the relationship between ICU organization and outcomes
Modifying how intensive care units (ICUs) are organized and run offers major opportunities to improve outcomes. In the previous issue of Critical Care, Billington and colleagues assessed the association of outcom...
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Improving the Intensive Care Unit
Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are a major component of modern healthcare systems. This, coupled with evidence demonstrating numerous problems with ICUs, mandate serious and sustained efforts to improve their per...
