Primary outcome variables were postoperative death, duration of mechanical ventilation, intensive care unit (ICU) stay, and hospital stay.
Secondary outcomes are cumulative fluid balance, daily SOFA scores, death, duration of mechanical ventilation, occurrence of skin ulcers under bandages, reproducibility of interface pressure, monitoring of intra-abdominal pressure and monitoring of respiratory parameters correlated with chest wall compliance such as plateau pressure and dynamic compliance.
The three explanatory variables were age at death, duration of employment, and year of autopsy.
No evidences for the dependence of chip RNA quality on brain pH, donor age of death, duration of agony stage, and post-mortem interval before sampling was found.
The table also lists the age at death, duration of illness and the density of granular PrP in the white matter.
No additional information with respect to outcomes of patients (death, duration of ventilation, infection and cost) that required reintubation was provided by the authors in the articles.
In these analyses dataset 2 was introduced which contained donors with known age of death, duration of agonal stage, brain pH, and post-mortem interval before sampling.
Individual patient data will allow doing time-to-event pooled analyses for outcomes such as death, duration of mechanical ventilation and oxygen dependency.
Although diabetes listed as any cause of death was stable over time, we have observed a statistically significant increase in reporting of diabetes as the underlying cause of death on death certificates between 2001 and 2008 independent of age at death and duration of diabetes at death.
Thus, even after accounting for age at death or duration of diabetes at death, the rate of recording diabetes as the underlying cause of death was higher in 2007 than in 2002.
