... physical restraints and relatives visiting the patient.
Statistical approach and analysis
Continuous or categorical data were transformed to factors
with a binary score. Cut-off values were based ... uni-
versity hospital and one community hospital. The two scores
were transformed in a binary scoring factor 'high risk for mor-
tality' indicating an APACHE II of at least 24...
... for statistical analysis.
Analysis
For each bladder volume in each patient, mean IBP was
recorded and absolute bias was calculated. The absolute bias
for each volume was calculated as IBP at a given ... estimate IAP by
IBP may cause clinically relevant overestimation of IAP and
hence a false increase in the prevalence and incidence of IAH
and ACS. Bladder compliance varies withi...
... intolerance; IAH, intra-abdominal hypertension; IAP, intra-abdominal pressure; ICU,
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Admission and outcome parameters of study patients
IAH FI
Admission parameters Total Absen...
... that those individuals for whom we
could not obtain information differed systematically from
those included in the study. Our ascertainment methods
for cases and controls may have been an additional ... study area and only 1% did not
have an informant.
Informants (most commonly family members) were
approached to take part in the study at the time they vis-
ited the Department of Foren...
... based on data available in hospital
information systems [9]. However, preliminary results suggest
that diagnosis coding in economic databases is inconsistent
between physicians and administrative ... administra-
tive and physiological data and of severity scores. The contact
physicians for the database in the participating ICUs are listed
in Additional file 1 and have been accredite...
... for
asthma care, including whether subjects had a regular site
for asthma care, a principal care provider for asthma,
medical insurance for outpatient asthma care, and an
annual deduction for outpatient ... factors for
asthma-related hospitalization, taking baseline asthma
severity into account. Because asthma severity may act on
the causal pathway between a risk fact...
... available online:
Additional file 1
Additional file 1 contains information on the required data
format and SAS and R calculations for cause-specific
hazard ratios in a competing risks analysis with ... study. MB created the data-
base and online platform for the KISS system. SB and CG par-
Table 3
Multivariate analysis of cause-specific hazard ratios for mortality on intensive...
... blood gas analysis by a critical care specialist.
In neutropenic patients and in patients undergoing neutrope-
nia recovery, clinically documented pneumonia was defined as
new pulmonary infiltrates ... leukemia patients; disap-
pearance of peripheral and deep lymphadenopathy, and other
malignant foci in lymphoma patients; and disappearance of
monoclonal immunoglobulin in blood and...
... imipenem/cilastatin (68%) and piperacillin/tazobactam
(53%). The best adequacy for EA was obtained by combinations of imipenem/cilastatin or piperacillin/tazobactam,
amikacin and a glycopept ide, with values ... MDR
organisms and the adequacy of EA.
Statistical analysis
Results are expressed as mean ± standard deviation, and
as percentages for categorical variables. All analyses
were pe...