Characteristics of Long-Stay Patients in a PICU and Healthcare Resource Utilization After Discharge.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine the characteristics of long-stay patients (LSPs) admitted to a PICU and to investigate discharge characteristics of medical complexity among discharged LSP.

Design

We performed a retrospective cohort study where clinical data were collected on all children admitted to our PICU between July 1, 2017, and January 1, 2020.

Setting

A single-center study based at Erasmus MC Sophia Children's Hospital, a level III interdisciplinary PICU in The Netherlands, providing all pediatric and surgical subspecialties.

Patients

LSP was defined as those admitted for at least 28 consecutive days.

Interventions

None.

Measurements

Length of PICU stay, diagnosis at admission, length of mechanical ventilation, need for extracorporeal membrane oxygen

SUBMITTER: Boerman GH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10461958 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature