Hypoalbuminemia is a strong predictor of 30-day all-cause mortality in acutely admitted medical patients: A prospective, observational, cohort study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Jellinge, Marlene Ersgaard ^a   Henriksen, Daniel Pilsgaard ^b   Hallas, Peter ^c   Brabrand, Mikkel ^a,d  

^a ESBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^d ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; DENMARK; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY PATIENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PATIENT; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT; PATIENT CODING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; TEACHING HOSPITAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SERUM ALBUMIN;

EID: 84923898586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105983     Document Type: Article

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