The indication and admission duration for all intervention will also be recorded.
Following adjustment for severity of illness at admission, duration of ICU LOS before VAP diagnosis, and adequacy of antimicrobial treatment, this difference was no longer significant.
In our logistic regression model, we adjusted for severity of disease and admission duration less or more than 24 hours since both high and low glucose levels could be a manifestation, rather than a cause, of severe disease.
Postpartum admission, duration of admission, and reasons for admission for mothers and neonates were comparable in both groups (table 5).
Hospital admission duration reported only for patients discharged alive.
Most patients (59.8%) had secondary level education (Table 1).> Figure 1 illustrates the patients' awareness of their clinical conditions, reason for admission, possible causes and estimated admission duration.
To compare dropouts with patients we followed up, we used chi-square tests for the categorical variable sex and Mann-Whitney-U-tests for continuous variables (age at first admission, duration of first inpatient treatment, follow-up-interval).
Healthcare resource utilisation during the study, including reason for admission and duration of stay in hospital were reported.
The following parameters will be collected retrospectively per patient: all creatinine values measured during admission, admission via emergency department or a planned admission, reason for admission (diagnosis), duration of admission, co-morbidities, and medication orders during admission.
