12 All patients were free of significant underlying medical, neurological or psychiatric illness.
Briefly, eligibility requirements included living independently in the community, having an informant who could provide information about the participants' daily function, and absence of significant underlying medical, neurologic or psychiatric illness.
These non-significant differences can be attributed to the underlying illness in the study group according to the authors.
Asthma has been a significant underlying condition in children and adults hospitalized with critical illness [ 27, 61].
ARDS, APACHE II and the absence of significant underlying diseases on admission independently predicted the evolution to chronic critical illness.
For the composite severe outcome, the same factors were identified in univariate and multivariate analysis; Ct was borderline significant (OR 1.16, 95% CI 1.00 1.34) when adjusted for age and underlying illness (Table 2).
CCI patients were more likely to have acute respiratory distress syndrome and greater acuity of illness, but they were less likely to have significant underlying co-morbidity, and there was no difference in mortality in comparison with patients who did not meet criteria for CCI.
Parents want to understand their child's illness better, and be reassured that they are not seriously ill (either currently or having an underlying illness).
aSeverity of illness is based on modified McCabe criteria (23): 1, severe underlying coexisting chronic condition at imminent risk of death; 2, significant underlying coexisting chronic condition, not at imminent risk of death; 3, no significant underlying coexisting chronic condition.
Differences in disease severity by HRV species have been described among hospitalized patients with underlying illness.
