Clinical data from the MIMIC-II database for a case study on indwelling arterial catheters:

This dataset was created for the purpose of a case study in the book: [
_Secondary Analysis of Electronic Health
Records_](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-43742-2) ,
published by Springer in 2016. In particular, the dataset was used throughout
[Chapter 16 (Data Analysis)
](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-43742-2_16)by Raffa J.
et al. to investigate the effectiveness of indwelling arterial catheters in
hemodynamically stable patients with respiratory failure for mortality
outcomes. The dataset is derived from MIMIC-II, the publicly-accessible
critical care database. It contains summary clinical data and outcomes for
1,776 patients.