Worsening severity of vitamin D deficiency is associated with increased length of stay, surgical intensive care unit cost, and mortality rate in surgical intensive care unit patients

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 37-43

  Matthews, L Ray ^a   Ahmed, Yusuf ^b   Wilson, Kenneth L ^a   Griggs, Diane D ^a   Danner, Omar K ^a  

^a MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Deficiency; Severe; Surgical intensive care unit; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

COLECALCIFEROL;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84862494949     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2011.07.021     Document Type: Article

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