Maximal temperature in the Paris area, excess emergency department visits (grey bars), and hospital admissions (white bars) in the Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, 1–30 August 2003

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Unprecedented heat-related deaths during the 2003 heat wave in Paris: consequences on emergency departments"</p><p>Critical Care 2003;8(1):1-2.</p><p>Published online 4 Dec 2003</p><p>PMCID:PMC420061.</p><p>Copyright © 2004 BioMed Central Ltd</p

Association of standardized ICU eligibility rate with all standardized outcomes.

<p>Association of standardized ICU eligibility rate with all standardized outcomes.</p

Hospital characteristics.

*<p>Standardized mortality ratio based on mortality predicted by SAPS II score.</p

Geriatric conditions of the patients according to physician decisions.

<p>Results for continuous and categorical variables are presented respectively as the mean (sd; median ; Inter-Quartile Range) and % (n).</p>*<p>significant difference (P<0.05).</p>†<p>assessed using Katz's Activities of Daily Living scale (ADL).</p>‡<p>  as assessed by the evaluating physician.</p

Flow Chart.

<p>* To evaluate exhaustiveness of patient inclusion in the study, one week was randomly drawn from the inclusion period, excluding the first and last month in each center. A study coordinator and a member of the steering committee reviewed the emergency department charts to estimate the number of patients missed during the randomly chosen week. Exhaustiveness was defined as the number of included patients divided by the total number of patients who should have been included in the study (sum of missed and included patients). It was extrapolated based on the estimation in each center: 62% (36%–88%).</p

Inclusion and follow-up in the ICE-CUB study.

<p>*documented in the CRF, including complete evaluation of the patient's state: functional status, comorbidities, medication, falls, recent hospitalization.</p

Multivariate models of outcome following the ED visit.

<p>Results are adjusted for severity (logit of the MPM₀ score corrected from the points attributed to age) and main presenting problem as assessed in ED.</p>*<p>defined as a one-point loss on at least one dimension of the ADL score six months after the ED visit;</p>**<p>estimated true inter-hospital variance;</p>***<p>The Median Odds Ratio (MOR) is defined as the median value of the odds ratio between the hospital at highest risk and the hospital at lowest risk for two randomly chosen hospital.</p

ICU admission and outcomes according to physicians' decisions.

<p>Results for continuous and categorical variables are presented respectively as the mean (sd; median ; Inter-Quartile Range) or % (n).</p>*<p>significant difference (P<0.05).</p>†<p>estimation based on the Mortality Probability Model 0 (MPM0).</p>‡<p>assessed using Katz's Activities of Daily Living scale (ADL).</p>§<p>defined as a one-point loss in at least one dimension of the ADL score six months after the ED visit.</p