Quality of care indicators for a resuscitation unit: A descriptive study and proposal.

ABSTRACT: There are lack of indicators of quality of care in resuscitation units of emergency departments. With the aim of proposing a series of indicators to evaluate the quality of care delivered in hospital resuscitation areas, we conducted a descriptive study of 7579 admissions to the resuscitation unit of an emergency department at a Spanish hospital between 2012 and 2016. The proposed indicators were the percentage of patients attending to the emergency department admitted to the resuscitation area by level of triage, the length of stay, the percentage of patients moved to intensive care and surgery at disposition, the mortality in the area or in the emergency department within 24 hours of disposition, and the data completeness. A majority of the patients (62.6%) were men and the median age wa

SUBMITTER: Yuguero O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6283204 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature