Background: Information on the prognostic utility of the admission complete blood count (CBC) and differential count is lacking. Objective: To identify independent predictors of mortality from the ...

A CBC is a common procedure that measures the different components in the blood. Doctors will measure different blood cell levels and compare them with the expected levels for a person of the same age ...

The study's findings suggest that high baseline white blood cell count, particularly high neutrophil count, was associated with a higher incidence of long-term acute exacerbation of chronic ...

During the 10 years from January 1993 through December 2002, physicians admitted 46,522 unique eligible patients to Wishard Memorial Hospital. Each patient averaged 2 admissions during the study ...