Open AccessThe Relationship Between Prognostic Nutritional Index and All-Cause Mortality in Critically Ill Patients: A Retrospective Study
Author(s) -
Yan Lu,
Chaoxiang Ren,
Jiaming Jiang
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of general medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.722
H-Index - 36
ISSN - 1178-7074
DOI - 10.2147/ijgm.s318896
Subject(s) - medicine , confounding , propensity score matching , logistic regression , critically ill , proportional hazards model , receiver operating characteristic , retrospective cohort study , survival analysis , covariate , mortality rate , intensive care medicine , statistics , mathematics
The effectiveness and prognostic value of the prognostic nutritional index (PNI) in critically ill patients are unknown. Hence, this study aimed to analyze the relationship between the PNI and all-cause mortality in critically ill patients.