Acute and long-term survival in chronically critically ill surgical patients a retrospective observational study.docVIP

Available online /content/11/3/R55 Research Open Access Vol 11 No 3 Acute and long-term survival in chronically critically ill surgical patients: a retrospective observational study Wolfgang H Hartl1, Hilde Wolf1, Christian P Schneider1, Helmut Küchenhoff2 and Karl- Walter Jauch1 1Department of Surgery, Klinikum Grosshadern, Marchioninistr. 15, LMU Munich, D-81377 Munich, Germany 2Institute of Statistics, Akademiestr. 1, LMU Munich, D-80799 Munich, Germany Corresponding author: Wolfgang H Hartl, whartl@med.uni-muenchen.de Received: 18 Dec 2006 Revisions requested: 31 Jan 2007 Revisions r