What Conclusions Should Be Drawn between Critical Care Physician Management and Patient Mortality in the Intensive Care Unit?
Authors: Tihomir Stefanec
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (2008)

Letters18 November 2008What Conclusions Should Be Drawn between Critical Care Physician Management and Patient Mortality in the Intensive Care Unit?Tihomir Stefanec, MDTihomir Stefanec, MDFrom The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-149-10-200811180-00018 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail TO THE EDITOR:I was struck by the very unusual major disease categories described in Table 2 of Levy and colleagues' article (1).For example, infections were present in 0% to 8.1% of the patients in the study. This rate seems very low.On the other hand, 19.4% to 52.9% of patients had a circulatory system disorder, whereas 12% to 17.6% had a digestive system disorder and 9.2% to 19.1% had a nervous system disorder. These 3 disease categories were not often the reasons for ICU admission in the mixed medicalsurgical ICUs where I worked in the last 6 to ...Reference1. Levy MM, Rapoport J, Lemeshow S, Chalfin DB, Phillips G, and Danis M. Association between critical care physician management and patient mortality in the intensive care unit. Ann Intern Med. 2008;148:801-9 LinkGoogle Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: Tihomir Stefanec, MDAffiliations: From The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201.Disclosures: Dr. Stefanec is a board-certified pulmonary/critical care physician who worked for more than 6 years as an intensivist in mixed medicalsurgical ICUs. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee AlsoAssociation between Critical Care Physician Management and Patient Mortality in the Intensive Care Unit Mitchell M. Levy , John Rapoport , Stanley Lemeshow , Donald B. Chalfin , Gary Phillips , and Marion Danis What Conclusions Should Be Drawn between Critical Care Physician Management and Patient Mortality in the Intensive Care Unit? William T. McGee What Conclusions Should Be Drawn between Critical Care Physician Management and Patient Mortality in the Intensive Care Unit? Constantine Manthous and Yaw Amoateng-Adjepong What Conclusions Should Be Drawn between Critical Care Physician Management and Patient Mortality in the Intensive Care Unit? Paul Marik , John Myburgh , Djillali Annane , Jean-Louis Vincent , Stephen Pastores , G. Umberto Meduri , and Albertus Beishuizen What Conclusions Should Be Drawn between Critical Care Physician Management and Patient Mortality in the Intensive Care Unit? Marya D. Zilberberg and Andrew F. Shorr What Conclusions Should Be Drawn between Critical Care Physician Management and Patient Mortality in the Intensive Care Unit? Mitchell M. Levy , John Rapoport , Stan Lemeshow , Gary Phillips , Donald B. Chalfin , and Marion Danis What Conclusions Should Be Drawn between Critical Care Physician Management and Patient Mortality in the Intensive Care Unit? Joris J. Arends and Jan P. Vandenbroucke What Conclusions Should Be Drawn between Critical Care Physician Management and Patient Mortality in the Intensive Care Unit? Andrew A. Quartin , Roland M.H. Schein , and Cynthia M. Cely What Conclusions Should Be Drawn between Critical Care Physician Management and Patient Mortality in the Intensive Care Unit? Michael Blumhardt What Conclusions Should Be Drawn between Critical Care Physician Management and Patient Mortality in the Intensive Care Unit? Thomas L. Higgins , Brian Nathanson , and Daniel Teres Metrics 18 November 2008Volume 149, Issue 10 Page: 769 Keywords COVID-19 Critical care Digestive system Intensive care units Nervous system Physicians ePublished: 18 November 2008 Issue Published: 18 November 2008 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2008 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...