Additionally, we identified other factors related to a poor outcome (severity, cause of respiratory derangement) and NIMV failure.
However, such a simple measure takes into account only poverty incidence, but it is insensitive to poverty depth and distribution among the poor (poverty severity) as it weights respondents with poor and fair health equally.
Significant risk factors for ACS among those in the ICU included poor disease severity scores, markers of metabolic derangement/organ failure, shock/hypotension, and large volume crystalloid and non-crystalloid resuscitation (Table 5 and Additional file 1: Table S3) [ 16, 22, 23].
Higher levels of help seeking were associated with the absence of a partner, poorer finances, severity of mental health problems, and higher levels of adversity.
The highest level of SHS exposure, as measured by urine cotinine, was cross-sectionally associated with poorer COPD severity (mean score increment 4.7 pts; 95% CI 0.6 to 8.9) and dyspnea (1.0 pts; 95% CI 0.4 to 1.7) after controlling for covariates.
Eligible participants were adults who i) had a positive Ni-patch test, ii) reported symptoms suggesting SNAS (5), iii) improved at least 70% from baseline after one month on a Ni-poor diet (severity of symptoms rated on a visual analog scale - VAS), and iv) were positive to a Ni-oral challenge (NOC).
The highest urine cotinine tertile was associated, in cross-sectional multivariate analysis, with poorer COPD severity scores (mean score increment 4.7 points; 95% CI 0.6 to 8.9 points) and MRC dyspnea scores (score increment 1.0; 95% CI 0.4 to 1.7 points) (Table 4).
Low levels of PC are associated with poor outcome and severity in severe sepsis, and it is well correlated with antithrombin III and INR.
For example, two key obstacles indicated in the capacity to monitor severe maternal morbidity in Australia have been the poor discrimination of severity of disease in coding categories of ICD and the lack of nationally agreed clinical and data definitions for particular morbid conditions to monitor maternal morbidity through the National Perinatal Data Collection NPDCC) [ 36].
Retrospective cohort studies have shown that prognostic factors of mortality in HIV-infected patients admitted to ICU were acute illness severity, poor functional status, low albumin rate, and respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation [2, 8, 11 14].
