There Is a Third Condition Aside from Survival and Death that Affects Outcome Statistics: Terminal Discharge

• Main Authors: Jianqiao Xu (Author), Yongqiang Chen (Author), Jiang Wang (Author), Guixiu Yang (Author), Peng Yan (Author), Zhimei Duan (Author), Lixin Xie (Author), Guoxin Mo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Some patients discharged automatically are classified as terminal discharge, while their clinical outcome is survival, disrupting the results of clinical research. Methods: The data of this study were taken from inpatients admitted to the ICU of the First Medical Center of the People...