Respiratory failure & ventilation
Mortality Due to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Latin America*
Authors' conclusion
ARDS mortality in Latin America remains high, as in other regions.
Study context
- Population
- Patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in Latin American countries (observational studies and RCTs)
- Participants
- 3,627 patients · 32 studies
- Outcome
- ARDS mortality
Methodological detailsrandom-effects model, GRADE certainty of evidence, sensitivity analyses, subgroup analyses, meta-regression
- Random-effects model
- GRADE certainty of evidence
- Sensitivity analyses
- Subgroup analyses
- Meta-regression
Pooled result
As reported in the abstract
Mortality, pooled
Pooled mortality
52%
Further pooled results
Mortality, Berlin definition (sensitivity analysis)
- Mortality
- 46%
- Moderate certainty of evidence
Mortality by study design (subgroup)
- RCTs
- 53%
- Observational studies
- 51%
Mortality by time of publication (subgroup)
- Published up to 2000
- 66%
- Published after 2000
- 50%
Mortality, studies with PaO2/FiO2 ≤ 200 (subgroup)
- PaO2/FiO2 ≤ 200
- 44%
Mortality by region (subgroup)
- Argentina/Brazil
- 56%
- Other countries
- 40%
Meta-regression
- No variables associated with mortality
Original publication
Mortality Due to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Latin America*. Crit Care Med. Published 18 April 2024. doi:10.
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