Critical Illness Outcome Study: An Observational Study on Protocols and Mortality in Intensive Care Units.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Many individual Intensive Care Unit (ICU) characteristics have been associated with patient outcomes, including staffing, expertise, continuity and team structure. Separately, many aspects of clinical care in ICUs have been operationalized through the development of complex treatment protocols. The United State Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group-Critical Illness Outcomes Study (USCIITG-CIOS) was designed to determine whether the extent of protocol availability and use in ICUs is associated with hospital survival in a large cohort of United States ICUs. Here, we describe the study protocol and analysis plan approved by the USCIITG-CIOS Steering Committee.

Methods

USCIITG-CIOS is a prospective, observational, ecological multi-centered "cohort" study of mixed

SUBMITTER: Ali NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4242589 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature