Strain on Scarce Intensive Care Beds Drives Reduced Patient Volumes, Patient Selection, and Worse Outcome: A National Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Strain on ICUs during the COVID-19 pandemic required stringent triage at the ICU to distribute resources appropriately. This could have resulted in reduced patient volumes, patient selection, and worse outcome of non-COVID-19 patients, especially during the pandemic peaks when the strain on ICUs was extreme. We analyzed this potential impact on the non-COVID-19 patients.

Design

A national cohort study.

Setting

Data of 71 Dutch ICUs.

Participants

A total of 120,393 patients in the pandemic non-COVID-19 cohort (from March 1, 2020 to February 28, 2022) and 164,737 patients in the prepandemic cohort (from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2019).

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Volume, patient characteristics, and mortality w

SUBMITTER: Brinkman S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10930373 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature