Blood gas readings at the emergency door flag who is most likely to die
A retrospective German cohort study finds that anemia, acidosis and low bicarbonate on initial point-of-care blood gas analysis were independently ...
Tag: In-hospital mortality
Stroke and seizures dominate neurological emergencies in Somali hospital cohort
A prospective cohort at a Mogadishu tertiary referral hospital found ischaemic stroke, epilepsy and haemorrhagic stroke were the leading neurological ...
Rib fractures drive ICU admissions in older adults with sternal fractures
A retrospective study of 127 older adults found that concomitant rib fractures and higher New Injury Severity Scores were strongly ...
Sepsis Kills One in Three Patients in Mogadishu Emergency Department, Prospective Cohort Finds
A prospective cohort of 169 sepsis patients at a Mogadishu tertiary emergency department found an in-hospital mortality rate of 30.2 ...
Liver Function Trajectories Predict Death Risk in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients
A retrospective cohort study of 2,412 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Tehran found that persistently abnormal or worsening trajectories of prothrombin ...
Procalcitonin predicts death risk in COPD flare-ups without pneumonia
A prospective multicenter study of 6,791 hospitalized COPD patients in China found that procalcitonin levels above 0.11 ng/mL independently predicted ...
Thyroid Hormone Ratio Tied to Hospital Death Risk in 26,000-Patient Study
A large retrospective cohort study in China found that higher FT3/FT4 ratios measured at admission were associated with lower in-hospital ...
Simple Blood Ratio Predicts Short-Term Death Risk After Heart Attack, Large Study Finds
A retrospective cohort study of more than 9,600 heart attack patients across three cohorts found that a higher platelet-to-white blood ...
Kidney Injury After Hip Fracture Surgery Linked to Higher Hospital Death Risk in Over-80s
Patients aged 80 and older who develop acute kidney injury around the time of hip fracture surgery face a markedly ...
One in Five Died: Nigerian Cohort Tracks 13 Years of Traumatic Brain Injury
A 13-year prospective registry from Nigeria's leading university teaching hospital documents 1,440 traumatic brain injury cases, a 21% in-hospital mortality ...
Niger retrospective cohort of presumed typhoid perforations finds 11.2% mortality
A retrospective study of 2,931 surgically treated presumed typhoid ileal perforations in Niger found an 11.2% in-hospital mortality rate, with ...
Respiratory failure linked to mortality in adult invasive Salmonella cohort
In a 106-patient observational cohort in southern Vietnam, respiratory failure was strongly associated with in-hospital death among adults with invasive ...
Single-hospital ICU study links catheter infections to 65.1% mortality
A retrospective study of 107 ICU catheter-associated urinary tract infection episodes found 65.1% in-hospital mortality and extensive carbapenem resistance among ...
Pediatric suspected myocarditis linked to 40% mortality in Pakistan cohort
A retrospective cohort study found 40.0% in-hospital mortality among 130 children with clinically suspected myocarditis at one Pakistani tertiary hospital.
Retrospective Japan cohort links liver-resection drains to lower mortality
A retrospective study of 73,613 adults undergoing liver resection without biliary reconstruction found no association between prophylactic drains and fewer ...
Prospective Vietnamese cohort tests explainable machine learning for acute heart failure mortality
A prospective Vietnamese cohort found that explainable machine learning could rank in-hospital mortality risk in acute heart failure, but it ...
Cryptococcal antigenemia detected in 11.1% of hospitalized advanced-HIV patients in Ceará study
A retrospective, cross-sectional study found cryptococcal antigenemia in 11.1% of 63 hospitalized patients with advanced HIV in Fortaleza and an ...
Stroke-associated pneumonia emerges early and signals worse hospital outcomes
A retrospective study of 3,347 acute ischemic stroke patients found that stroke-associated pneumonia developed in 12.8%, with more than half ...
Predictors of survival among hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the Gambia, 2020–2022
A retrospective cohort study of 705 hospitalized patients in The Gambia found that advanced age and several chronic conditions were ...
Simple Blood Ratio Predicts Death Risk in Cirrhosis Patients With Pneumonia
A multicenter Chinese study of 851 patients found that the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio independently predicts in-hospital death in cirrhosis patients with ...
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