Background: Intensive care unit–acquired weakness (ICU-AW) is a common complication of
critical illness and is associated with increased mortality, longer mechanical ventilation and …

Background Globally, mortality rates of patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU)
have decreased over the last two decades. However, evaluations of the temporal trends in …

Objective To investigate the circadian variation among critically ill patients and its
association with clinical characteristics and survival to hospital discharge in a large …

Several cumbersome scoring systems were developed for prognosis and outcome
prediction in sepsis. We intended in this study to evaluate the urinary albumin/creatinine …

Objective: To predict the mortality by the mean Acute Physiology and Chronic Health
Evaluation (APACHE) IV score of all the patients admitted in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit …

Introducción: Los sistemas pronósticos son herramientas que utilizadas racionalmente
superan la experiencia individual de cualquier médico, aplicando al juicio clínico sin …

Results Of 1857 patients admitted during study period, 1356 were eligible for study; out of
which 53.9% were males and 383 (28%) patients transferred during after-hour. Mean age of …

Background Many scoring systems have been developed for the prognosis and outcome
prediction in sepsis, so trying to find a prognostic marker confirming the scoring systems …

Using observational data to learn causal relationships is essential when randomized
experiments are not possible, such as in healthcare. Discovering causal relationships in …

Systems-wide molecular analysis of the metabolic, inflammatory and immune response to
surgical trauma has yet to be translated into the operating room. Surgical patients are …