id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-014987-nycbjqn6 nan OP 0364-0412 2006-08-24 .txt text/plain 9795 580 55 In the "Prevalence of severe sepsis and septic shock in Intensive Care Units in Germany" study, a prospective observational cross-sectional study, data from 454 ICUs in 310 randomly selected hospitals in Germany were collected by local one-day visits of trained physicians from SepNet's 17 regional study centers. Despite the higher APACHE II score in both groups (median score 21 or 18.5, respectively compared with 16.5 in the enteral group, p<0.01) our results indicate that parenteral nutrition has an important attributable effect on mortality in septic patients. In this follow up study, we document the impact of intensive insulin therapy on long term mortality and objective and subjective well-being of high risk cardiac surgical patients. 4 years after ICU-admission, we assessed long term outcome of the subgroup of cardiac surgical patients (N=970) included in the original insulin trial (1) . ./cache/cord-014987-nycbjqn6.txt ./txt/cord-014987-nycbjqn6.txt