2008
DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0b013e3181659610
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Abstract: The risk of acquiring a new infection is greater in the ICU. However, risk of mortality among ICU patients was lower for the most serious infections and for those without any infection.

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“…Most studies of ICU triage have focused on patients admitted [11,30,35] or rejected for ICU management [13,36], which prevents comparison with patients who have been transferred late to the ICU. Our study evaluated the impact of delay to ICU admission on mortality, when patients are admitted at a later point, pending bed availability.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Most studies of ICU triage have focused on patients admitted [11,30,35] or rejected for ICU management [13,36], which prevents comparison with patients who have been transferred late to the ICU. Our study evaluated the impact of delay to ICU admission on mortality, when patients are admitted at a later point, pending bed availability.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To independently evaluate age and comorbidities in multivariate analysis, the APACHE II score was dissociated with age, comorbidity, and Acute Physiology Score (APS) [30]. This approach was applied to the score calculated at the time of ICU ordering and at ICU admission.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…(1,6,7) As a consequence, critically ill patients are hospitalized outside the ICU: some evidence exists that these patients have a mortality rate higher than similar patients admitted to ICU, (1)(2)(3)8) although a recent study did not confirm the data. (9) Among the different "responding teams", the Medical Emergency Team (MET) is the best evaluated: (10) nonetheless, its efficacy -and the methods to ascertain it-remains a matter of discussion.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 63%
“…In many countries the demand for intensive care beds exceeds their availability, (1)(2)(3) and it is unlikely that the number of expensive Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds will increase. Earlier and better selection of patients admitted to ICU can allow more appropriate utilization of available intensive care resources.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…One of the main determinants of this shortterm survival is the severity of the acute illness [2]. Over the past few decades, various scoring systems have been developed to measure the severity of illness among the critically ill [3], amongst which, the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II remains the most widely used [4][5][6][7][8]. However, patients requiring critical care frequently present with multiple physiological abnormalities and are often relatively old [9] with multiple chronic comorbid conditions that are not captured by APACHE II [10].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%