Comparison of European ICU patients in 2012 (ICON) versus 2002 (SOAP).

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate differences in the characteristics and outcomes of intensive care unit (ICU) patients over time.

Methods

We reviewed all epidemiological data, including comorbidities, types and severity of organ failure, interventions, lengths of stay and outcome, for patients from the Sepsis Occurrence in Acutely ill Patients (SOAP) study, an observational study conducted in European intensive care units in 2002, and the Intensive Care Over Nations (ICON) audit, a survey of intensive care unit patients conducted in 2012.

Results

We compared the 3147 patients from the SOAP study with the 4852 patients from the ICON audit admitted to intensive care units in the same countries as those in the SOAP study. The ICON patients were older (62.5 ± 17.0 vs. 60.6 ± 17.4 year

SUBMITTER: Vincent JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5861160 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature