Potentially Avoidable Surgical Intensive Care Unit Admissions and Disposition Delays.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

High health care costs encourage initiatives that avoid overuse of resources and identify opportunities to promote appropriate care.

Objective

To investigate the causes of potentially avoidable surgical intensive care unit (SICU) admissions and disposition delays to determine whether targeted interventions could decrease these stays.

Design, setting, and participants

This prospective, observational study focused on potentially avoidable SICU days, as determined by observers with input from the rounding intensivists at a 24-bed open SICU at an urban, academic hospital. The preintervention phase occurred from April 6 through June 21, 2015; after implementation of targeted interventions, the postintervention phase occurred from April 4 through June 28, 2016. D

SUBMITTER: Dhillon NK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5710417 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature