Some of the research on rear-seated passengers involved in side impacts includes seating position, but does not specifically distinguish whether the point of vehicle impact was on the same side or the opposite side of the rear-seated passenger, a potentially important predictor of fatality (Mayrose and Priya 2008; Zhu et al. 2007).
Although drugs accounted for most cases of poisoning in our study, pesticides were a major contributor and paraquat exposure was a strong predictor of fatality.
These data indicate that transfusion of lower amount of virus load in blood could also result in recipient animal death, and that high titers of viremia are a strong predictor of fatality in the H5N1-infected host.
Logistic regression analysis revealed male sex and diabetes to be important predictors of fatality.
In a regression model comparing the risk of fatality for pedestrians versus bicyclists, controlling for age, gender, injury severity, and trauma center status, pediatric pedestrian injuries were associated with more than twice the risk of death as bicyclist injuries, with injury severity (by definition) and TBI being strong predictors of fatality (Table 3).
Multivariate analysis was performed for the predictors of fatality.
Herein, we describe the predictors of fatality among adult hospitalized patients due to A (H1N1) pdm09 infection in Istanbul, Turkey.
As with anaemia, low platelets have been identified as markers of severity and predictors of fatality by other investigators [ 2, 11, 27- 30].
We speculated that factors generally associated with unfavorable prognosis in clinical settings, such as unstable vital signs (including decreased consciousness, shock status, respiratory distress, abnormal heart rate and abnormal body temperature), history of major disease, and old age are predictors of fatality in cases of poisoning.
Our model for in-hospital mortality includes, apart from the use of adequate antimicrobial therapy before ICU admission, variables frequently identified as predictors of fatality in large cohorts of sepsis, such as severity of illness, certain comorbidities, and the source of infection.
In contrast to our study there are also studies where high BMI is not found to be a predictor of case fatality in ICU patients [ 22- 25], and where a low BMI is independently associated with higher case fatality [ 22, 23].
