Intensive care unit caseload and workload and their association with outcomes in critically unwell patients: a large registry-based cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Too high or too low patient volumes and work amounts may overwhelm health care professionals and obstruct processes or lead to inadequate personnel routine and process flow. We sought to evaluate, whether an association between current caseload, current workload, and outcomes exists in intensive care units (ICU).

Methods

Retrospective cohort analysis of data from an Austrian ICU registry. Data on patients aged ≥ 18 years admitted to 144 Austrian ICUs between 2013 and 2022 were included. A Cox proportional hazards model with ICU mortality as the outcome of interest adjusted with patients' respective SAPS 3, current ICU caseload (measured by ICU occupancy rates), and current ICU workload (measured by median TISS-28 per ICU) as time-dependent covariables was construc

SUBMITTER: Zajic P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11401295 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature