Economic variations in patterns of care and outcomes of patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation in China: a national cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ventilation practice may be affected by economic variations, which might result in different outcomes to mechanically ventilated patients. We aimed to investigate the important effect of economic variations in patients with mechanical ventilation (MV) in China.

Methods

We carried out a national prospective multicentre cross-sectional observational study over 1 month of all patients receiving invasive MV for more than 24 hours in 20 intensive care units (ICUs), including patient characteristics, practice of MV, weaning modalities and outcomes, including probability of weaning and survival. Based on the 2012 World Bank classification of counties, patients were divided into high-income and middle-income groups according to gross domestic product per capita in their p

SUBMITTER: Liu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6688026 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature