Lack of surgical intervention when needed was highly predictive of mortality in TBI patients.
The association of high PCT and CRP was no more predictive of mortality than high CRP.
Sweeney and Khatri recently cofounded a company that aims to put these gene signatures and those predictive of mortality into clinical practice.
Measures of health-related quality of life (HRQL), including the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3) are predictive of mortality.
An upper value of CRP above 9.9 mg/L is independly predictive of mortality, mainly from cardiovascular causes.
OBJECTIVE: To determine if body mass Index (BMI = weight [kg]/height [m]2), predictive of mortality in longitudinal epidemiologic studies, was also predictive of mortality in a sample of seriously ill hospitalized subjects.
Severity as measured by the clinical scoring system was predictive of mortality.
Once adjusted for belt use, vehicle year was no longer significantly predictive of mortality (p = 0.17).
OI is independently predictive of mortality in patients with ARDS [22],[22].
In this study, a low initial ScvO2 (ScvO2 < 70%) was not predictive of mortality.
Furthermore, BNP level is not predictive of mortality in this population.
