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01-07-2019 | Editorial

The use of clustering algorithms in critical care research to unravel patient heterogeneity

Authors: José Castela Forte, Anders Perner, Iwan C. C. van der Horst

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 7/2019

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Critically ill patients constitute the most heterogeneous population in the hospital, with the highest rates of acute and chronic multimorbidity. Daily, two critically ill patients are admitted to the ICU with the same syndrome-based diagnosis, receive similar treatment, and yet have diametrically opposite outcomes. Knowledge regarding disease mechanisms and effectiveness of interventions that could explain this is lacking, but it is increasingly clear that syndrome-based patient categorisation inevitably leads to grouping of patients with different risk profiles, responses to interventions, and outcomes. In septic shock, for instance, cardiovascular sub-phenotypes are insufficiently characterised, which compromises the effectiveness of hemodynamic support [1]. …

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Title: The use of clustering algorithms in critical care research to unravel patient heterogeneity
Authors: José Castela Forte
Anders Perner
Iwan C. C. van der Horst
Publication date: 01-07-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 7/2019
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-019-05631-z

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