Critical care medicine
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Critical care medicine · Mar 2022
Race Does Not Impact Sepsis Outcomes When Considering Socioeconomic Factors in Multilevel Modeling.
To determine whether race is a major determinant of sepsis outcomes when controlling for socioeconomic factors. ⋯ Our study demonstrates that race is not an independent risk factor for sepsis mortality, as well as sepsis-related length of stay. We should expand our inquiry into determinants of sepsis outcomes by including socioeconomic variables.
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Critical care medicine · Mar 2022
Association Between Urine Output and Mortality in Critically Ill Patients: A Machine Learning Approach.
Current definitions of acute kidney injury use a urine output threshold of less than 0.5 mL/kg/hr, which have not been validated in the modern era. We aimed to determine the prognostic importance of urine output within the first 24 hours of admission to the ICU and to evaluate for variance between different admission diagnoses. ⋯ Consistent with current definitions of acute kidney injury, a urine output threshold of less than 0.5 mL/kg/hr is modestly predictive of mortality in patients admitted to the ICU. The relative importance of urine output for predicting survival varies with admission diagnosis.