Individual Organ Failure and Concomitant Risk of Mortality Differs According to the Type of Admission to ICU - A Retrospective Study of SOFA Score of 23,795 Patients.

Organ dysfunction or failure after the first days of ICU treatment and subsequent mortality with respect to the type of intensive care unit (ICU) admission is poorly elucidated. Therefore we analyzed the association of ICU mortality and admission for medical (M), scheduled surgery (ScS) or unschedul...

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Main Authors: Tobias M Bingold, Rolf Lefering, Kai Zacharowski, Patrick Meybohm, Christian Waydhas, Peter Rosenberger, Bertram Scheller, DIVI Intensive Care Registry Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4524700?pdf=render