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AUTHOR
K. Saarinen
Comparison of European ICU patients in 2012 (ICON) versus 2002 (SOAP)
Purpose: To evaluate differences in the characteristics and outcomes of intensive care unit (ICU) patients over time. Methods: We reviewed all epidemiological data, including comorbidities, types and severity of organ failure, interventions, lengths of stay and outcome, for patients from the Sepsis Occurrence in Acutely ill Patients (SOAP) study, an observational study conducted in European intensive care units in 2002, and the Intensive Care Over Nations (ICON) audit, a survey of intensive care unit patients conducted in 2012. Results: We compared the 3147 patients from the SOAP study with the 4852 patients from the ICON audit admitted to intensive care units in the same countries as those…
MOESM1 of Propagule pressure increase and phylogenetic diversity decrease community’s susceptibility to invasion
Additional file 1: Figure S1. Phylogeny of the study species, based on 16S rRNA. The tree includes the sequences FJ971882 (E. aerogenes), GQ856082 (L. adecarboxylata), NR_041980 (S. marcescens ssp. marcescens), NR_024570 (E. coli), AF094736 (P. putida), and AB680102 (P. chlororaphis). The sequence accession numbers were obtained from the NCBI nucleotide sequences database. Metrics for mean phylogenetic distances and variance of distances were calculated based on standardized distances between species. Results from data analysis of full data containing all communities. Figure S2. Effects of propagule pressure (A), phylogenetic diversity (B) and phylogenetic distance (C) on invasion success a…
Assessment of the worldwide burden of critical illness: The Intensive Care Over Nations (ICON) audit
Item does not contain fulltext BACKGROUND: Global epidemiological data regarding outcomes for patients in intensive care units (ICUs) are scarce, but are important in understanding the worldwide burden of critical illness. We, therefore, did an international audit of ICU patients worldwide and assessed variations between hospitals and countries in terms of ICU mortality. METHODS: 730 participating centres in 84 countries prospectively collected data on all adult (>16 years) patients admitted to their ICU between May 8 and May 18, 2012, except those admitted for fewer than 24 h for routine postoperative monitoring. Participation was voluntary. Data were collected daily for a maximum of 28 da…