Assessing lactate concentration as a predictor of 28‐day in‐hospital mortality in the presence of ethanol: A retrospective study of emergency department patients by Arvin Radfar Akhavan, Nicholas J. Johnson, Benjamin Friedman, Jane Hall, Karl Jablonowski, M. Kennedy Hall, Daniel J. Henning

“…Patients were grouped by EtOH test results as follows: 1) present (any EtOH detected), 2) absent (EtOH concentration measured and not detected), or 3) not ordered. Marginal analysis was used to calculated probability of mortality for fixed values of lactate and model covariates. …”
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