The burden of critical illness among adults in a Swedish region-a population-based point-prevalence study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with critical illness have a high risk of mortality. Key decision-making in the health system affecting the outcomes of critically ill patients requires epidemiological evidence, but the burden of critical illness is largely unknown. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of critical illness in a Swedish region. Secondary objectives were to estimate the proportion of hospital inpatients who are critically ill and to describe the in-hospital location of critically ill patients.

Methods

A prospective, multi-center, population-based, point-prevalence study on specific days in 2017-2018. All adult (> 18 years) in-patients, regardless of admitting specially, in all acute hospitals in Sörmland, and the patients from Sörmland who had been referred to univer

SUBMITTER: Schell CO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10483802 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature