Common laboratory tests predict imminent medical emergency team calls, intensive care unit admission or death in emergency department patients

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 132-139

  Loekito, Elsa ^a   Bailey, James ^a   Bellomo, Rinaldo ^b,c   Hart, Graeme K ^b   Hegarty, Colin ^b   Davey, Peter ^b   Bain, Christopher ^d   Pilcher, David ^d   Schneider, Hans ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AUSTIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biochemistry; Emergency department; Laboratory; Medical emergency team; Mortality; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BICARBONATE; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; UREA;

ADULT; AGE; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BICARBONATE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; EMERGENCY PATIENT; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84876114475     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1742-6723.12040     Document Type: Article

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