Open AccessAssociation between body mass index, missing data, and mortality risk among critically ill patients: the role of missing-data imputation
Author(s) -
HeeJung Jee,
Tak Kyu Oh,
InAe Song,
Hyonggin An
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
annals of palliative medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.546
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 2224-5839
pISSN - 2224-5820
DOI - 10.21037/apm-20-203
Subject(s) - medicine , underweight , body mass index , missing data , confidence interval , hazard ratio , imputation (statistics) , overweight , intensive care unit , statistics , mathematics
We aimed to investigate the association between body mass index (BMI) at the time of intensive care unit (ICU) admission and 90-day mortality risk in complete-case datasets that ignore missing data as well as in datasets with multiple imputation for missing data.
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