Alatassi, Abdulaleem
Habbal, Mohamad
Tamim, Hani
Sadat, Musharaf
Al Qasim, Eman
Arabi, Yaseen M. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5735-6241
Article History
Received: 7 August 2017
Accepted: 27 April 2018
First Online: 22 May 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the National Guard Health Affairs Institutional Review Board, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with the approval number RR11/137 and conducted in accordance with the amended Declaration of Helsinki.This was a retrospective study of adult patients admitted to an ICU of a tertiary care center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from July 2001 to November 2011. Data were extracted from prospectively collected ICU and clinical laboratory databases. Informed consent was waived by the IRB because of the observational nature of the study.
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