Sentence examples for mortality were secondary from inspiring English sources

Re-intubation, length of stay and mortality were secondary outcomes.

Among others, 28 days and 6-month mortality were secondary parameters.

Resumption of anticancer therapy in patients who survived the ICU stay and 90-day mortality were secondary endpoints.

Other cancers, vascular disease, side effects and mortality were secondary endpoints.

Development of lung injury (according to consensus criteria for ALI/ARDS) [ 17], duration of mechanical ventilation, and mortality were secondary outcomes.

Recent criticism of this work, however, questions whether the increased mortality was secondary to the actual usage of CPOE, or whether the manner in which the hospital implemented CPOE was a confounding factor [8].

Thus, it can be debated whether the overall improvement in mortality is secondary to the optimization of management and a less aggressive (or harmful) ventilatory strategy or is merely due to having less severely ill patients admitted to the PICU.

It has been reported that approximately 75%% of all bicycle-related mortality is secondary to head injuries, 85%% of which could have been prevented by wearing a bicycle helmet (The Center for Head Injury Statistics 2014).

It could be argued that this mortality is secondary to withdrawal from the positive effect of BM-containing IgA and CCL28 at a time of life when the immune response is still immature.

Our study suggests that the improvement to unit mortality was secondary to patient selection, rather than a fundamental change in clinical practice within the ICU.

It was then suggested that, in the Leuven trial, difference in observed mortality was secondary to a higher mortality in the control group due to an excessive glucose load.