Pediatric intermediate care and pediatric intensive care units: PICU metrics and an analysis of patients that use both.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To examine how intermediate care units (IMCUs) are used in relation to pediatric intensive care units (PICUs), characterize PICU patients that utilize IMCUs, and estimate the impact of IMCUs on PICU metrics.

Materials & methods

Retrospective study of PICU patients discharged from 108 hospitals from 2009 to 2011. Patients admitted from or discharged to IMCUs were characterized. We explored the relationships between having an IMCU and several PICU metrics: physical length-of-stay (LOS), medical LOS, discharge wait time, admission severity of illness, unplanned PICU admissions from wards, and early PICU readmissions.

Results

Thirty-three percent of sites had an IMCU. After adjusting for known confounders, there was no association between having an IMCU and PICU L

SUBMITTER: Geneslaw AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5633493 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature