Critically ill patients often receive insulin infusion [1, 2], although concerns with the risk of hypoglycemia and failure to show a positive impact on patient outcome has altered the frequency of use.
Critically ill patients often receive insulin infusion [ 1, 2], although concerns with the risk of hypoglycemia and failure to show a positive impact on patient outcome has altered the frequency of use.
In other models of Gram-negative bacterial infection, CD14 gene knockout mice had been proved to have altered outcomes of infection.
It seems unlikely that more frequent surveillance would have altered outcomes in this patient group, which probably reflects aggressive tumour biology.
However, previous studies in patients admitted to intensive care have shown that premortem clinical diagnoses are frequently incorrect, and in up to 27% of patients a treatable condition that might have altered outcome, had it been recognised, is identified at postmortem examination [ 3].
They scrutinize voting data to determine if term limits have altered election outcomes or the electoral chances of women and minority candidates, and reveal how restricting a legislator's time in office has changed political careers and ambitions.
A longer follow-up of the patients might have altered these outcomes.
Finally, it is unclear whether high PEEP would have altered clinical outcomes in either the prone or supine study arms, although existing data suggest a benefit with supine positioning in moderate-severe ARDS [ 20].
The arguable claim that any Ohio voting irregularities could not have altered the outcome of the presidential election is misplaced.
Accurate fuses on a few Argentinian bombs could have altered the outcome in the Falklands, for example.
"We lack substantiating evidence that these voting day irregularities were of sufficient weight to have altered the outcome," she said.
