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We read the manuscript by Rodrigues et al. in the latest issue of Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva Journal with great interest.() In this single-center, retrospective, observational cohort study, Rodrigues et al. aimed to identify risk factors associated with later readmission to the intensive care unit (ICU) among critically ill oncohematological patients by evaluating their first ICU admissions. They identified male sex, emergency surgery as the admission reason, longer length of hospital stay before ICU transfer and mechanical ventilation (MV) as independent risk factors for ICU readmissions. The hypothesis of this study was attractive because it evaluated a specific group of patients, “oncohematological patients,” who were followed in multiple critical care units and had different characteristics from the typical medical and surgical ICU populations. However, by evaluating only the admission factors of their first ICU stay, Rodrigues et al. limited their results to a narrow window. They disregarded evaluating other more important risk factors, some of which were mentioned in the manuscript’s discussion section.
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To the editor
We read the manuscript by Rodrigues et al. in the latest issue of Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva Journal with great interest.() In this single-center, retrospective, observational cohort study, Rodrigues et al. aimed to identify risk factors associated with later readmission to the intensive care unit (ICU) among critically ill oncohematological patients by evaluating their first ICU admissions. They identified male sex, emergency surgery as the admission reason, longer length of hospital stay before ICU transfer and mechanical ventilation (MV) as independent risk factors for ICU readmissions. The hypothesis of this study was attractive because it evaluated a specific group of patients, "oncohematological patients," who were followed in multiple critical care units and had different characteristics from the typical medical and surgical ICU populations. However, by evaluating only the admission factors of their first ICU stay, Rodrigues et al. limited their results to a narrow window. They disregarded evaluating other more important risk factors, some of which were mentioned in the manuscript's discussion section.
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