Evaluating service development in critical care: The impact of establishing a medical high dependency unit on intensive care unit workload, case mix, and mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Critical care services underpin the delivery of many types of secondary care, and there is increasing focus on how to best deliver such services. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of establishing a medical high dependency unit, in a tertiary referral center, on the workload, case mix, and mortality of the intensive care unit.

Methods

Single-center, 11-year retrospective study of patients admitted to the general intensive care unit, before and after the opening of the medical high dependency unit, using interrupted time series methodology.

Results

Over the duration of the study period, 3209 medical patients were admitted to the intensive care unit. There was a constant rate of medical admissions to the intensive care unit until the opening

SUBMITTER: Amiruddin N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6110029 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature