Causes of death and determinants of outcome in critically ill patients

Critical Care

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Mayr, Viktoria D ^a   Dünser, Martin W ^b   Greil, Veronika ^c   Jochberger, Stefan ^a   Luckner, Günter ^a   Ulmer, Hanno ^d   Friesenecker, Barbara E ^a   Takala, Jukka ^b   Hasibeder, Walter R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c TILAK   (Austria)

^d INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^e Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern Ried Betriebsgesellschaft mbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; COHORT ANALYSIS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247550890     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc5086     Document Type: Article

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