Functional Outcomes After Critical Illness in the Elderly*
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Dysmagnesaemia and Critical Illness Outcomes
Methods We performed a two center observational study of patients treated in medical and surgical intensive care units in Boston, Massachusetts. All data was obtained from the Research Patient Data Registry at Partners HealthCare. We studied 81,061 patients, age ≥ 18 years, who received critical care between 1997 and 2012 and who survived 72 hours following ICU admission. We excluded patients w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Critical Care Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0090-3493
DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000001026