Still, in case of a selection bias the real mortality risks of the women selected for PCI, would be underestimated.
Comorbidity adjustment by either index increased the magnitude of the mortality reduction, and, therefore, any residual confounding in this regard would only, we believe, cause an underestimate of the real mortality trend in our study.
We abandoned it pretty quickly, but I couldn't stop thinking about it, and about the questions it raised about virtual versus real, mortality and the afterlife, and the absurdities of living in the Internet age.
Consider the real mortality risk associated with ED over-crowding.
Shkolnikov et al. (2003) have shown that the estimation of G 0 using aggregated mortality rates at older ages rather than real mortality rates might get affected due to the increase in the proportion of deaths at older ages.
But in future, if mortality rates at older ages continue to increase it will be necessary to use real mortality data for estimation of G 0 (Shkolnikov et al. 2003).
It was more accurate to identify the real mortality than the APACHE II score.
The real mortality rate in the ICU was 29.4%, with 8.8% before 48 hours.
The expected and real mortality were compared within the groups of patients with and without sepsis.
We studied, on a monthly basis, the following variables: age, sex, length of stay in ICU (LOS), occupation rate (OR), real mortality rate, invasive mechanical ventilation rate, accidental extubation, pneumothorax by accidental punction and pressure ulcers and casemix.
