One-year mortality after recovery from critical illness: A retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Factors associated with one-year mortality after recovery from critical illness are not well understood. Clinicians generally lack information regarding post-hospital discharge outcomes of patients from the intensive care unit, which may be important when counseling patients and families.

Objective

We sought to determine which factors among patients who survived for at least 30 days post-ICU admission are associated with one-year mortality.

Methods

Single-center, longitudinal retrospective cohort study of all ICU patients admitted to a tertiary-care academic medical center from 2001-2012 who survived ≥30 days from ICU admission. Cox's proportional hazards model was used to identify the variables that are associated with one-year mortality. The primary outcom

SUBMITTER: Lokhandwala S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5947984 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature