Fig. 3From: Variation in rates of ICU readmissions and post-ICU in-hospital mortality and their association with ICU discharge practicesStandardized rates of post-ICU in-hospital mortality. Mortality rates were corrected for ICU level (in which level 1 are the least and level 3 the most advanced ICUs), age, cardiovascular insufficiency, cirrhosis, haematological malignancy, cardio vascular accident, medical or surgical admission type, planned admission, mechanical ventilation in the first 24Â h of admission, chronic renal insufficiency, chronic dialysis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, respiratory insufficiency, neoplasm, immunological insufficiency, gastrointestinal bleeding, acute renal failure, confirmed infection, vasopressors, diabetes, cerebrovasculair accident, CPR, dysrhythmia, and logit transformed APACHE IV mortality probability [26]Back to article page