Simultaneous Prediction of New Morbidity, Mortality, and Survival Without New Morbidity From Pediatric Intensive Care: A New Paradigm for Outcomes Assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Assessments of care including quality assessments adjusted for physiological status should include the development of new morbidities as well as mortalities. We hypothesized that morbidity, like mortality, is associated with physiological dysfunction and could be predicted simultaneously with mortality.

Design

Prospective cohort study from December 4, 2011, to April 7, 2013.

Setting

General and cardiac/cardiovascular PICUs at seven sites.

Patients

Randomly selected PICU patients from their first PICU admission.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Among 10,078 admissions, the unadjusted morbidity rates (measured with the Functional Status Scale and defined as an increase of ≥ 3 from preillness to hospital discharge) were 4.

SUBMITTER: Pollack MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4657566 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature