The repeatability of Stewart's parameters and anion gap in a cohort of critically ill adult patients

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2026-2031

  Mallat, Jihad ^a   Barrailler, Stéphanie ^a   Lemyze, Malcolm ^a   Benzidi, Younes ^a   Pepy, Florent ^a   Gasan, Gaëlle ^a   Tronchon, Laurent ^a   Thevenin, Didier ^a  

^a Centre Hospitalier de LENS   (France)

Author keywords

Anion gap; Least significant change; Repeatability; Smallest detectable difference; Stewart's parameters; Within coefficient of variation

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANION;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANALYZER; ANION GAP; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; HUMAN; LABORATORY ANALYZER; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MEASUREMENT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMALLEST DETECTABLE DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STEWART PARAMETER;

ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ACID-BASE IMBALANCE; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTROLYTES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SERUM ALBUMIN;

EID: 84872059488     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-012-2679-9     Document Type: Article

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