Neutrophilia is already considered as adverse outcome predictor in several tumors [ 18, 42, 43].
Age was also an independent predictor in several risk factor changes.
Evolution of RR in the first hours was described as an outcome predictor in several paediatric studies [ 13, 15].
Since work satisfaction was indicated as a return-to-work predictor in several previous studies [ 25, 49, 50], it is a limitation.
Another limitation of the study is the failure to measure prior psychological symptoms as this has been found to be a predictor in several studies [ 2, 27, 37].
Because of the strong skew, we examined the Charlson comorbidity score as a potential predictor in several ways with different depths of coding, as a continuous variable and as a categorical variable in three groups (0, 1-5, >5).
However, although herbal tea consumption was a significant predictor in several models, it contributed less to the overall variance than seafood consumption because only 18% of participants reported that they drank herbal teas, whereas 88% consumed seafood.
Albumin level showed the strongest association with mortality compared with other predictor variables in several large observational studies [ 24].
Subsequently, mHLA-DR expression was assessed as a predictor of sepsis in several series of severely injured patients [ 15, 17, 18, 20, 39, 51- 53].
As cardiovascular function is the key variable in many critically ill patients, BNP and NT-proBNP - as quantitative markers of hemodynamic cardiac stress and heart failure summarizing the extent of systolic and diastolic left ventricular dysfunction, valvular dysfunction, and right ventricular dysfunction - have been shown to be predictors of death in several previous studies.
