Red cell distribution width and all-cause mortality in critically ill patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1913-1921

  Bazick, Heidi S ^a   Chang, Domingo ^c   Mahadevappa, Karthik ^c   Gibbons, Fiona K ^b   Christopher, Kenneth B ^c  

^a Department of Anesthesiology ^*  (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

bloodstream infection; intensive care; mortality; Red cell distribution width

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ERYTHROCYTE PARAMETERS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTH; SEPSIS; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 79961030278     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31821b85c6     Document Type: Article

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