BACKGROUND The Deyo-Charlson Comorbidity Index (DCCI) has low predictive value in the intensive care unit (ICU). Our goal was to determine whether addition of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) levels to the DCCI improved 90-day mortality prediction in critically ill patients. METHODS Plasma 25OHD levels, DCCI, and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) scores were assessed wi...

BACKGROUND Thyroid hormone dysfunction could affect outcome and increase mortality in critical illness. Therefore, in a prospective, observational study we analyzed and compared the prognostic accuracy of free tri-iodothyronine (fT3), free thyroxine (fT4), thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), along with the APACHE II and SOFA scoring systems in predicting intensive care unit (ICU) mortality in cr...

Background: Sepsis is one of the most common causes for mortality in the intensive care unit. Several biochemical markers and clinical scoring systems have been used to assess the severity and outcome of sepsis. Objective: To correlate the extent of C reactive protein (CRP) elevation with mortality; in addition we also try to find a correlation by combining CRP level and APACHE II score as a pr...

The technology of Enterprise Application Integration could be applied for the interoperation among distributed heterogeneous systems. This paper presents the application integration framework for data exchange and business interaction based on Service Component Architecture, Message Oriented Middleware and Enterprise Service Bus. Furthermore, it introduces the implementation of the framework us...