Preventable death was defined as one that satisfies three tenets: 1) the general condition on admission was survivable, 2) the delivery of care was sub-optimal and 3) the error in care was directly or indirectly implicated in the death of the patient.
Postoperatively, given the patient's condition on admission, he was no longer deemed a surgical candidate for mass excision.
Through cluster analysis, two clusters of patients were identified: patients in fair/good condition on admission and patients in poor condition on admission.
However, his glycemic condition on admission was poor (hemoglobin A1C [HbA10.4 10.4%).
> -wrap-foot> *Adjusted for clinical condition on admission and amount of blood on initial CT scan.
This indicates that patients in poor condition on admission had a greater chance of further improvement.
The groups can be meaningfully described as a cluster with patients in poor condition on admission (cluster 1, "poor cluster") and a cluster with patients in fair/good condition on admission (cluster 2, "good cluster").
Poor patient condition on admission to the medical ICU might have influenced the decision to perform a tracheostomy late.
