Body mass index: An additional prognostic factor in ICU patients

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 437-443

  Garrouste Orgeas, Maité ^a   Troché, Gilles ^b   Azoulay, Elie ^c   Caubel, Antoine ^a   De Lassence, Arnaud ^d   Cheval, Christine ^a   Montesino, Laurent ^e   Thuong, Marie ^f   Vincent, François ^g   Cohen, Yves ^h   Timsit, Jean François ^e  

^a SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ANTOINE BÉCLÈRE   (France)

^c SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^d HÔPITAL LOUIS MOURIER   (France)

^e BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^f DELAFONTAINE HOSPITAL   (France)

^g HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

^h AVICENNE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Evaluation studies; Intensive care unit; Mortality; Severity scores

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK;

EID: 12144291066     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-003-2095-2     Document Type: Article

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