Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

Keynote webinar | Spotlight on medication adherence

LIVE: Thursday 27th June 2024, 18:00-19:30 (CEST)
Join our expert panel to discover why you need to understand the drivers of non-adherence in your patients, and how you can optimize medication adherence in your clinics to drastically improve patient outcomes.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 9/2009

01-09-2009 | Correspondence

Predictive ability of intra-abdominal pressure for ICU mortality

Authors: Maria Kompoti, Martha Michalia, Phyllis-Maria Clouva-Molyvdas

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 9/2009

Login to get access

Excerpt

Dear Editor: Reintam et al. [1] discuss intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) as an independent risk factor of mortality in a presumed risk population of critically ill patients. The authors use univariable logistic regression to identify risk factors for ICU mortality followed by multiple logistic regression to identify risk factors that are independently associated with ICU mortality. …
Literature
1.
Reintam A, Parm P, Kitus R, Kern H, Starkopf J (2008) Primary and secondary intra-abdominal hypertension – different impact on ICU outcome. Intensive Care Med 34:1624–1631PubMedCrossRef
2.
Hanley JA, McNeil BJ (1982) The meaning and use of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Radiology 143:29–36PubMed
3.
Agresti A (2002) Building and applying logistic regression models. In: Agresti A (ed) Categorical data analysis, 2nd edn. Wiley, Hoboken, pp 211–266
Metadata
Title
Predictive ability of intra-abdominal pressure for ICU mortality
Authors
Maria Kompoti
Martha Michalia
Phyllis-Maria Clouva-Molyvdas
Publication date
01-09-2009
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 9/2009
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-009-1540-2

Other articles of this Issue 9/2009

Intensive Care Medicine 9/2009 Go to the issue

Original

Effects of a predominantly hydroxyethyl starch (HES)-based and a predominantly non HES-based fluid therapy on renal function in surgical ICU patients

Brief Report

Decontamination of the digestive tract and oropharynx: hospital acquired infections after discharge from the intensive care unit

Editorial

Candida pneumonia in the ICU: myth or reality?

Correspondence

Reply to Gibot

Case Discussion

Combination antifungal treatment of pseudomembranous tracheobronchial invasive aspergillosis: a case report

Correspondence

Rifampicin treatment of persistently elevated benzodiazepine metabolites in a comatose patient