What Conclusions Should Be Drawn between Critical Care Physician Management and Patient Mortality in the Intensive Care Unit?

Tihomir Stefanec

doi:10.7326/0003-4819-149-10-200811180-00018

Letters |18 November 2008

What Conclusions Should Be Drawn between Critical Care Physician Management and Patient Mortality in the Intensive Care Unit?

Tihomir Stefanec, MD

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TO THE EDITOR:

I was struck by the very unusual major disease categories described in Table 2 of Levy and colleagues' article (1).

For example, infections were present in 0% to 8.1% of the patients in the study. This rate seems very low.

On the other hand, 19.4% to 52.9% of patients had a circulatory system disorder, whereas 12% to 17.6% had a digestive system disorder and 9.2% to 19.1% had a nervous system disorder. These 3 disease categories were not often the reasons for ICU admission in the mixed medicalsurgical ICUs where I worked in the last 6...

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