PICU Volume and Outcome: A Severity-Adjusted Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the relationship between PICU volume and severity-adjusted mortality in a large, national dataset.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

The VPS database (VPS, LLC, Los Angeles, CA), a national multicenter clinical PICU database.

Patients

All patients with discharge dates between September 2009 and March 2012 and valid Pediatric Index of Mortality 2 and Pediatric Risk of Mortality III scores, who were not transferred to another ICU and were seen in an ICU that collected at least three quarters of data.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Anonymized data received included ICU mortality, hospital and patient demographics, and Pediatric Index of Mortality 2 and Pediatric Risk of Mortality III scores. PICU vo

SUBMITTER: Markovitz BP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5215123 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature