Beyond 30-Day Mortality

Looking beyond 28-day all-cause mortality

A growing body of evidence indicates that survivors of intensive care have an impaired quality of life. It is not entirely clear from the available literature whether this impairment is a complication of critical illness or a complication of therapy. There is little evidence to guide physicians to treatments in the intensive care unit that will minimize the effects of critical illness on these ...

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and 30-Day Mortality: The CANADA Score

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy: 30-day mortality trends and risk factors.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS 30-day Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) mortality of 8% (1992). Recent concerns suggest that mortality may have increased, prompting a comparison of current practice with that reported earlier. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data regarding PEG insertion with relation to case mix, complications, 30-day mortality and associated risk factors, in 2002, in a British University ...

Preadmission Use of Glucocorticoids and 30-Day Mortality After Stroke.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The prognostic impact of glucocorticoids on stroke mortality remains uncertain. We, therefore, examined whether preadmission use of glucocorticoids is associated with short-term mortality after ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), or subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). METHODS We conducted a nationwide population-based cohort study using medical registries in Den...

Predicting 30-day mortality after hip fracture surgery

OBJECTIVES The National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD) publishes hospital-level risk-adjusted mortality rates following hip fracture surgery in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The performance of the risk model used by the NHFD was compared with the widely-used Nottingham Hip Fracture Score. METHODS Data from 94 hospitals on patients aged 60 to 110 who had hip fracture surgery between May 2...