Do use of multistate models to assess prolongation of intensive care unit stay due to nosocomial infection?
Further studies are required to enable comparison of data on prolongation of ICU length of stay with the results of various study methods.
PCC data are able to effectively identify trends in poisonings seen in EDs and may be useful as part of a pharmaceutical poisoning surveillance system. The authors developed an algorithm-driven technique for mapping American Association of Poison Control Centers codes to ICD-9 codes and identified a useful subset of poison control exposures for analysis.