Long-Term Mortality and Hospital Resource Use in ICU Patients With Alcohol-Related Liver Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Data describing long-term outcomes following ICU for patients with alcohol-related liver disease are scarce. We aimed to report long-term mortality and emergency hospital resource use for patients with alcohol-related liver disease and compare this with two comparator cohorts.

Design

Retrospective cohort study linking population registry data.

Setting

All adult general Scottish ICUs (2005-2010) serving 5 million population.

Patients

ICU patients with alcohol-related liver disease were compared with an unmatched cohort with Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation defined diagnoses of severe cardiovascular, respiratory, or renal comorbidity and a matched general ICU cohort.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Outcomes

SUBMITTER: Lone NI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6314466 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature