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Erschienen in: Critical Care 2/2009

01.04.2009 | Commentary

'Relation, association, attribution ...' – the multiple faces of death in critical care medicine

verfasst von: Susanne Toussaint, Herwig Gerlach

Erschienen in: Critical Care | Ausgabe 2/2009

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Abstract

Mortality is one of the most important quality markers in critical care, and there have been many epidemiological studies trying to identify risk factors to better understand the mechanisms leading to death in this complex disease. One of the major problems is that there are multiple factors contributing to fatal outcome of septic patients, and it is difficult to distinguish between those that are independent from the acute disease (comorbidities and 'risk factors') and those that are directly involved in the pathomechanisms of sepsis, thus leading to the 'sepsis-attributable' mortality. In this short commentary, some examples of different approaches of how to analyze data on mortality are presented.
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Metadaten
Titel
'Relation, association, attribution ...' – the multiple faces of death in critical care medicine
verfasst von
Susanne Toussaint
Herwig Gerlach
Publikationsdatum
01.04.2009
Verlag
BioMed Central
Erschienen in
Critical Care / Ausgabe 2/2009
Elektronische ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc7789

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