The association of red cell distribution width at hospital discharge and out-of-hospital mortality following critical illness

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 918-929

  Purtle, Steven W ^a   Moromizato, Takuhiro ^a   McKane, Caitlin K ^a   Gibbons, Fiona K ^b   Christopher, Kenneth B ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

critical care; epidemiology; hospital discharge; intensive care; mortality; red cell distribution width

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; INOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; APACHE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ERYTHROCYTE PARAMETERS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOCRIT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RED CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84897098178     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000118     Document Type: Article

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