Is red blood cell distribution width a marker of severity in patients discharged from the ICU?

We have read the study about the association between high red blood cell distribution width and higher ward mortality after intensive care unit discharge. The study increases the evidence that RDW may be a marker of severity for patients discharged from the ICU. However, in this letter, we comment o...

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Autores principales: Tonietto, Tiago Antonio, Boniatti, Marcio Manozzo, Lisboa, Thiago Costa, Viana, Marina Verçoza, Faulhaber, Gustavo Adolpho Moreira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6350351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30723545
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40560-019-0364-6
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author Tonietto, Tiago Antonio
Boniatti, Marcio Manozzo
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Viana, Marina Verçoza
Faulhaber, Gustavo Adolpho Moreira
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description We have read the study about the association between high red blood cell distribution width and higher ward mortality after intensive care unit discharge. The study increases the evidence that RDW may be a marker of severity for patients discharged from the ICU. However, in this letter, we comment on issues that need further discussion.
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spelling pubmed-63503512019-02-05 Is red blood cell distribution width a marker of severity in patients discharged from the ICU? Tonietto, Tiago Antonio Boniatti, Marcio Manozzo Lisboa, Thiago Costa Viana, Marina Verçoza Faulhaber, Gustavo Adolpho Moreira J Intensive Care Letter to the Editor We have read the study about the association between high red blood cell distribution width and higher ward mortality after intensive care unit discharge. The study increases the evidence that RDW may be a marker of severity for patients discharged from the ICU. However, in this letter, we comment on issues that need further discussion. BioMed Central 2019-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6350351/ /pubmed/30723545 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40560-019-0364-6 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Is red blood cell distribution width a marker of severity in patients discharged from the ICU?
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title_full_unstemmed Is red blood cell distribution width a marker of severity in patients discharged from the ICU?
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title_sort is red blood cell distribution width a marker of severity in patients discharged from the icu?
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6350351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30723545
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40560-019-0364-6
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