MIMIC III Database: A Descriptive #Epidemiology of Severe #Cholangitis Patient Cohort by Abdellah Hedjoudje in BJSTR

Abstract

Objective: #Electronicmedicalrecords include detailed information on clinical care. Besides its clinical utility, they afford researchers to evaluate impact of diagnostic and #therapeuticdecisions on patient outcomes. However, these dataset are not shared mainly for confidential reasons and remain consequently underused. MIMIC-III (‘Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care’) is a large, single-center database comprising information relating to patients admitted to critical care units at a large #tertiary care hospital has been made publicly available. The objective of this study is to investigate and introduce the database content though the descriptive epidemiology of a severe #cholangitis patient cohort.

Method: We conducted a retrospective study of patients with severe cholangitis admitted to the intensive care unit of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center using the MIMIC-III v1.4 (‘Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care’). We investigated type of data available in the dataset such as patient characteristics, mortality, drug prescription, microbiology data and fluid balance.

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MIMIC III Database: A Descriptive #Epidemiology of Severe #Cholangitis Patient Cohort by Abdellah Hedjoudje in BJSTR