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01.03.2008 | Poster presentation
Hospital mortality and length of ICU stay in severely burned patients
verfasst von:
S Meier, G Kleger, W Künzi, R Stocker
Erschienen in:
Critical Care
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Sonderheft 2/2008
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Excerpt
Survival and the length of ICU stay (LOS) of severely ill or injured patients are dependent on demographic (for example, age, gender) and organizational factors as well as pre-existing diseases and the degree of physiological abnormalities. Different scores allow one to predict hospital mortality of general ICU patients. Such scores (for example, APACHE II or SAPS II) are developed by multivariate statistical methods. Burned patients, however, have been excluded in the development of most scoring systems. We are interested in finding relevant risk factors concerning hospital mortality and LOS. …