Schuttevaer, Romy

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In dit proefschrift hebben wij ons gericht op de herkenning van het risico op mortaliteit bij patiënten met een infectie op de spoedeisendehulp en het verbeteren van de antibiotische therapie aldaar. Ook deden we onderzoek naar het identificeren van mortaliteitsrisico door middel van bloedonderzoek op de spoedeisendehulp

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Stellingen behorend bij het proefschrift ADVANCING ACUTE INTERNAL MEDICINE Identifying mortality risk following infection and laboratory testing  1. Normothermia does not exclude a serious infection, therefore, absence of fever should not be the only reason to delay antibiotic therapy. (this thesis)  2. Comorbidity predicts long-term survival in patients with infection, whilst short-term mortality is predicted better with vital signs. (this thesis)   3. Antimicrobial guidelines should be followed in the emergency department regardless of presenting disease severity. (this thesis)  4. Laboratory point-of-care testing helps to identify patients with an elevated mortality risk in the emergency department. (this thesis)   5. Stratification by indication is a solution to confounding bias that remains despite common adjustment methods. (this thesis)  6. Extensive adjustment might be tempting; however, conditioning on shared effects may induce collider bias. (adapted from Hernán, 2004)    7. Capitalizing on the idiosyncrasies of the sample at hand induces overfitted models that fail to replicate in future samples. (Babyak, 2004)  8. Optimizing drinking behaviors of marathon runners can prevent dysnatremia. (adapted from Martinez-Cano, 2018)   9. When an adverse event occurs, the important issue is not who blundered, but how and why the defensive layers of a system failed. (Reason, 2000)  10. Point-of-care ultrasound potentially makes ultrasonography the stethoscope of the 21st century. (Alsma, 2015)   11. If we knew what it is we were doing, it would not be called research. (Einstein, 1879-1955)   Romy Schuttevaer, 6 april 2022 

Advancing acute internal medicine:Identifying mortality risk following infection and laboratory testing

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Advancing acute internal medicine:Identifying mortality risk following infection and laboratory testing

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