Use of Intensive Care Services for Medicare Beneficiaries Undergoing Major Surgical Procedures.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Use of intensive care after major surgical procedures and whether routinely admitting patients to intensive care units (ICUs) improve outcomes or increase costs is unknown.

Methods

The authors examined frequency of admission to an ICU during the hospital stay for Medicare beneficiaries undergoing selected major surgical procedures: elective endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair, cystectomy, pancreaticoduodenectomy, esophagectomy, and elective open AAA repair. The authors compared hospital mortality, length of stay, and Medicare payments for patients receiving each procedure in hospitals admitting patients to the ICU less than 50% of the time (low use), 50 to 89% (moderate use), and 90% or greater (high use), adjusting for patient and hospital factors

SUBMITTER: Wunsch H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4792707 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature