Multinational Prospective Cohort Study of Mortality Risk Factors in 198 ICUs of 12 Latin American Countries over 24 Years: The Effects of Healthcare-Associated Infections.
Víctor Daniel RosenthalRuijie YinSandra Liliana Valderrama-BeltranSandra Milena GualteroClaudia Yaneth LinaresGuadalupe Aguirre-AvalosJulio Cesar Mijangos-MéndezMiguel Ángel Ibarra-EstradaLuisa Fernanda Jimenez-AlvarezLidia Patricia ReyesCarlos Arturo Alvarez-MorenoMaria Adelia Zuniga-ChavarriaAna Marcela Quesada-MoraKatherine GomezJohana AlarconJose Millan OñateDaisy Aguilar-De-MorosElizabeth Castaño-GuerraJudith CórdobaAlejandro Sassoe-GonzalezClaudia Marisol Millán-CastilloLissette Leyva XotlanihuaLina Alejandra Aguilar-MorenoJuan Sebastian Bravo OjedaIvan Felipe Gutierrez TobarMary Cruz Aleman-BocanegraClara Veronica Echazarreta-MartínezBelinda Mireya Flores-SánchezYuliana Andrea Cano-MedinaEdwin Giovannny Chapeta-ParadaRafael Antonio Gonzalez-NiñoMaria Isabel Villegas-MotaMildred Montoya-MalváezMiguel Ángel Cortés-VázquezEduardo Alexandrino MedeirosDayana FramDaniela Vieira-EscuderoZhilin JinPublished in: Journal of epidemiology and global health (2022)
Some of the identified mortality RFs are unlikely to change, such as the income level of the country, facility ownership, hospitalization type, ICU type, and age. But some of the mortality RFs we found can be changed, and efforts should be made to reduce CL-days, UC-days, MV-utilization ratio, UC-utilization ratio, and lower VAPs and CAUTI rates.