Respiratory rate at intensive care unit discharge after liver transplant is an independent risk factor for intensive care unit readmission within the same hospital stay: A nested case-control study

Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 791-796

  Cardoso, Filipe S ^a   Karvellas, Constantine J ^a   Kneteman, Norman M ^a   Meeberg, Glenda ^b   Fidalgo, Pedro ^a   Bagshaw, Sean M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical care; Early readmission; Liver transplantation; Predictors

Indexed keywords

HYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREATHING RATE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS C; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; CANADA; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; LIVER GRAFT; PROGNOSIS;

ALBERTA; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RESPIRATORY RATE;

EID: 84906046873     PISSN: 08839441     EISSN: 15578615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2014.03.038     Document Type: Article

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