Five-Year Mortality and Hospital Costs Associated with Surviving Intensive Care.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Survivors of critical illness experience significant morbidity, but the impact of surviving the intensive care unit (ICU) has not been quantified comprehensively at a population level.

Objectives

To identify factors associated with increased hospital resource use and to ascertain whether ICU admission was associated with increased mortality and resource use.

Methods

Matched cohort study and pre/post-analysis using national linked data registries with complete population coverage. The population consisted of patients admitted to all adult general ICUs during 2005 and surviving to hospital discharge, identified from the Scottish Intensive Care Society Audit Group registry, matched (1:1) with similar hospital control subjects. Five-year outcomes included mortal

SUBMITTER: Lone NI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5003217 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature