An observational study on the impact of the socio-economic crisis in greece on ICU patient recruitment
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Methods “Papageorgiou” General Hospital is one of the four major hospitals of Thessaloniki, the second largest Greek city of 1.2 million inhabitants. Data was extracted from hospital databases (ICD-10 diagnoses V01-V89 for MT and X60-X84 for SA) from the year 2008 to 2014. Several variables concerning patient demographics, APACHE and SAPS II scores, length of ICU stay (LOS) and outcome were recorded and further statistically analyzed using c[], Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests.
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