The attribute mortality and length of intensive care unit stay of clinically important gastrointestinal bleeding in critically ill patients

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Cook D.J. [1 ,2 ]
Griffith L.E. [2 ]
Walter S.D. [2 ]
Guyatt G.H. [1 ,2 ]
Meade M.O. [1 ]
Heyland D.K. [3 ]
Kirby A. [4 ]
Tryba M. [5 ]
机构
[1] Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.
[2] Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.
[3] Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.
[4] Department of Critical Care, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta.
[5] Department of Anesthesia, University of Bochum, Bochum
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Critical Care | / 5卷 / 6期
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Critical care; Gastrointestinal bleeding; Length of stay; Matching mortality; Regression analysis; Stress ulceration;
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10.1186/cc1071
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Objective. To estimate the mortality and length of stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) attributable to clinically important gastrointestinal bleeding in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients. Design. Three strategies were used to estimate the mortality attributable to bleeding in two multicentre databases. The first method matched patients who bled with those who did not (matched cohort), using duration of ICU stay prior to the bleed, each of six domains of the Multiple Organ Dysfunction Score (MODS) measured 3 days prior to the bleed, APACHE II score, age, admitting diagnosis, and duration of mechanical ventilation. The second approach employed Cox proportional hazards regression to match bleeding and non-bleeding patients (model-based matched cohort). The third method, instead of matching, derived estimates based on regression modelling using the entire population (regression method). Three parallel analyses were conducted for the length of ICU stay attributable to clinically important bleeding. Setting. Sixteen Canadian university-affiliated ICUs. Patients A total of 1666 critically ill patients receiving mechanical ventilation for at least 48 hours. Measurements. We prospectively collected data on patient demographics, APACHE II score, admitting diagnosis, daily MODS, clinically important bleeding, length of ICU stay, and mortality. Independent adjudicators determined the occurrence of clinically important gastrointestinal bleeding, defined as overt bleeding in association with haemodynamic compromise or blood transfusion. Results. Of 1666 patients, 59 developed clinically important gastrointestinal bleeding. The mean APACHE II score was 22.9 ± 8.6 among bleeding patients and 23.3 ± 7.7 among non-bleeding patients. The risk of death was increased in patients with bleeding using all three analytic approaches (matched cohort method: relative risk [RR] = 2.9, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.6-5.5; model-based matched cohort method: RR = 1.8, 95% CI = 1.1-2.9; and the regression method: RR = 4.1, 95% CI = 2.6-6.5). However, this was not significant for the adjusted regression method (RR = 1.0, 95% CI = 0.6-1.7). The median length of ICU stay attributable to clinically important bleeding for these three methods, respectively, was 3.8 days (95% CI = -0.01 to 7.6 days), 6.7 days (95% CI = 2.7-10.7 days), and 7.9 days (95% CI = 1.4-14.4 days). Conclusions. Clinically important upper gastrointestinal bleeding has an important attributable morbidity and mortality, associated with a RR of death of 1-4 and an excess length of ICU stay of approximately 4-8 days.
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