Red cell distribution width as a novel predictor of mortality in ICU patients

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-46

  Wang, Feilong ^a   Pan, Wenzhi ^b   Pan, Shuming ^a   Ge, Junbo ^b   Wang, Shuyun ^a   Chen, Miao ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

APACHE II score; ICU; mortality; red cell distribution width

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; APACHE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RED BLOOD CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78651407518     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: 13652060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07853890.2010.521766     Document Type: Article

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