Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Jul 2021
Multicenter StudyPredictors of death and new disability after critical illness: a multicentre prospective cohort study.
This study aimed to determine the prevalence and predictors of death or new disability following critical illness. ⋯ Less than half of all patients mechanically ventilated for more than 24 h were alive and free of new disability at 6 months after admission to ICU. A model including age, illness severity and admission diagnosis has acceptable discriminative ability to predict death or new disability at 6 months.