Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Jun 2011
Multicenter StudyDose-related effect of smoking on mortality in critically ill patients: a multicentre cohort study.
It is uncertain whether smoking has an independent dose-related adverse effect on mortality in critically ill patients. This study assessed whether the intensity of smoking history, measured in pack-years, has a dose-related effect on mortality in critically ill patients. ⋯ Smoking has a dose-related adverse effect on mortality of critically ill patients after adjusting for other confounders.