BACKGROUND: The aims of this cohort study were to assess the survival of @entity130 @entity1 treated in a general intensive care unit (ICU) and to evaluate the @entity697 ( @entity697 ) II, maximum sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score, injury severity score (ISS), age, sex and severe @entity542 as predictors of 30-day mortality. METHODS: Three hundred and twenty-five adult @entity1 admitted during 1998-2003 were evaluated retrospectively with update of survival data in January 2005. Kaplan-Meier statistics and Cox proportional hazards regression were used to study survival and to assess predictors of mortality, respectively. RESULTS: The 30-day mortality was 16.9%, ICU mortality 13.8% and hospital mortality 17.8%. Long-term survival (observation time, 1-7 years) was 77.8%. After 3.5 years, mortality was the same as for the background population. Severe @entity542 was the main cause of @entity204 and increased the risk of 30-day mortality 2.4-fold. In addition, @entity697 II and an age above 50 years proved to be significant predictors of mortality in a multivariate analysis. Sex was not associated with mortality, and ISS and the maximum SOFA score were significant predictors in univariate analyses only. CONCLUSION: Reduced long-term survival was observed up to 3.5 years after @entity131 . The 30-day mortality was strongly related to severe @entity542 , @entity697 II and an age above 50 years. These variables may be useful as predictors of mortality, and may contribute to risk adjustment of this subset of @entity130 @entity1 when treatment results from different centres are compared.

@entity130 XXXX in the intensive care unit: short- and long-term survival and predictors of 30-day mortality.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity131 :: ('MESH:D001930', 'Disease') :: ['acute injury'] @entity697 :: ('MESH:D000208', 'Disease') :: ['simplified acute physiology score', 'SAPS'] @entity542 :: ('MESH:D006259', 'Disease') :: ['head injury'] @entity204 :: ('MESH:D003643', 'Disease') :: ['death'] @entity130 :: ('MESH:D014947', 'Disease') :: ['trauma']
@entity1 :: (9606,Species) :: ['patients']
