The epidemiology of intensive care unit readmissions in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

The incidence of intensive care unit (ICU) readmissions across the United States is unknown.

Objectives

To determine incidence of ICU readmissions in United States hospitals, and describe the distribution of time between ICU discharges and readmissions.

Methods

This retrospective cohort study used 196,202 patients in 156 medical and surgical ICUs in 106 community and academic hospitals participating in Project IMPACT from April 1, 2001, to December 31, 2007. We used mixed-effects logistic regression, adjusting for patient and hospital characteristics, to describe how ICU readmission rates differed across patient types, ICU models, and hospital types.

Measurements and main results

Measurements consisted of 48- and 120-hour ICU readmission rates and tim

SUBMITTER: Brown SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3359937 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature