Assessing the Influence of Intensive Care Unit Organizational Factors on Outcomes in Canada: Is There Residual Confounding?

Conclusions: The lack of a consistent relationship between organizational factors and ICU outcomes, and relationships that show increased mortality associated with some advantageous factors, suggests that there is residual confounding in these relationships. Models that adjust for only conventional patient-level confounders are unlikely to provide valid estimates of the influence of organizational factors.
Source: Journal of Intensive Care Medicine - Category: Intensive Care Authors: Tags: Review of a Large Clinical Series Source Type: research