Relationship of body mass index to subsequent mortality among seriously ill hospitalized patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1962-1968

  Galanos, Anthony N ^a   Pieper, Carl F ^a   Kussin, Peter S ^a   Winchell, Maria T ^a   Fulkerson, William J ^a   Harrell Jr , Frank E ^a   Teno, Joan M ^b   Layde, Peter ^c   Connors Jr , Alfred F ^d   Phillips, Russell S ^e   Wenger, Neil S ^f  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Hospitalized; Prediction of mortality; Severely ill adults

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APACHE; BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031442011     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199712000-00010     Document Type: Article

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