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Does prolonged ICU stay beyond 48 hours increase the risk of mortality and affect patient-centered outcomes in cardiac surgical patients?
Does prolonged ICU stay beyond 48 hours increase the risk of mortality and affect patient-centered outcomes in cardiac surgical patients?
Prolonged ICU stay beyond 48 hours after cardiac surgery is consistently associated with increased hospital and long-term mortality.
Prolonged ICU stay >48h warrants heightened mortality surveillance after cardiac surgery; confirms association but leaves precise risk quantification open due to heterogeneity.
We found consistent evidence that patients with increases in ICU length of stay beyond 48 hours have significantly increasing risk of hospital and long-term mortality. The significant heterogeneity in exposure and outcome definitions leave us unable to precisely quantify the risk of prolonged ICU stay on mortality and patient-centered outcomes.
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