Modern Canada was built by successive waves of immigrants, first from Europe and more recently from Asia.It is also a result of policies that since the 1970s have focused on admitting the most employable people.
8 To date, patient safety research has focused primarily on admitted patients.
Although this study did not specifically focus on patients admitted to the ICU, and although not all patients admitted to the ICU with severe sepsis undergo mechanical ventilation, evaluation of the findings of that study and those of the present one revealed the presence of similar volume-outcome effects in the two studies.
This disparity may be accounted for by the fact that these studies differed in their inclusion criteria, with a focus on patients admitted to the hospital, including patients with ST elevation MI, and/or had much earlier follow-up for the endpoint of MACE.
Logically, we can gather how worrying doesn't help anything, problems are never as bad as they seem, we'd be better off if we could just focus on gratitude, admit we have a problem, seek professional help, choose to view the glass as half full... and so on.
In this study we focus on patients admitted to a hospital, who are taken care by a hospitalist.
Furthermore, we focused on patients admitted with severe sepsis, and we did not take into account patients who developed severe sepsis while on the general ward or patients who developed severe sepsis after the first 24 hours of ICU stay.
In series focusing on patients admitted to ICU for IE, 35 52 % of patients underwent surgery [4, 6, 7].
We focused on patients admitted in ICU with a definite diagnosis of severe sepsis or septic shock according to the Surviving Sepsis Campaign definitions.
