Relationship between human serum albumin and in-hospital mortality in critical care patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Background: The relationship between human serum albumin levels and the prognosis of critical care patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains controversial. Objective: To investigate the relationship between serum albumin levels and in-hospital mortality in critical care patients with COPD. METHODS: This study used a retrospective observational cohort from the Medical Information in Intensive Care database (MIMIC-IV) in the United States. Multivariate Cox regression analysis was used to assess the relationship between serum albumin levels and in-hospital mortality. A restricted cubic spline line was also used to explore nonlinear relationship. Results: A total of 3,398 critical care patients with COPD were included. The overall in-hospital mortality was 12.4%. We found a negative relationship between human serum albumin and in-hospital mortality (HR = 0.97, 95% CI 0.96-0.99, p = 0.002). Conclusion: In critical care patients with COPD, there was a negative association between human serum albumin and in-hospital mortality.

Construction of following-up index system for ICU patients with acute kidney injury based on the Omaha nursing outcome classification system / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective:To construct follow-up index system of ICU patients with acute kidney injury based on the Omaha nursing outcome classification system, and to provide a reference for the clinical care quality and the follow-up work of ICU patients after discharge.Methods:Based on the Omaha nursing outcome classification system, the Delphi method was used to establish the content of the follow-up index system for ICU patients with acute kidney injury, and determine the weight of all levels of indicators.Results:After two rounds of expert consultation, questionnaire response rates were 95.00%and 100.00%, expert authority coefficients were 0.861 and 0.892 (both P<0.01), coordination coefficients ranged from 0.296 to 0.667 and 0.240 to 0.804, the difference were statistically significant ( χ2 values were 60.77-288.17, and P<0.01). The final index system consisted of 4 first-level indicators, 16 second-level indicators, and 52 third-level indicators. The analytic hierarchy process was used to determine the weights of all indexes, and the consistency test (consistency ratio<0.1) was performed. Conclusions:The follow-up index system of ICU patients with acute kidney injury was constructed to provide a reference for the clinical care quality and the follow-up work of ICU patients after discharge, and to provide a theoretical basis for the follow-up mode after ICU.