Nighttime intensivist staffing and mortality among critically ill patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospitals are increasingly adopting 24-hour intensivist physician staffing as a strategy to improve intensive care unit (ICU) outcomes. However, the degree to which nighttime intensivists are associated with improvements in the quality of ICU care is unknown.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study involving ICUs that participated in the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) clinical information system from 2009 through 2010, linking a survey of ICU staffing practices with patient-level outcomes data from adult ICU admissions. Multivariate models were used to assess the relationship between nighttime intensivist staffing and in-hospital mortality among ICU patients, with adjustment for daytime intensivist staffing, severity of illness,

SUBMITTER: Wallace DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3979289 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature