Healthcare trajectories before and after critical illness: population-based insight on diverse patients clusters.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The post intensive care syndrome (PICS) gathers various disabilities, associated with a substantial healthcare use. However, patients' comorbidities and active medical conditions prior to intensive care unit (ICU) admission may partly drive healthcare use after ICU discharge. To better understand retative contribution of critical illness and PICS-compared to pre-existing comorbidities-as potential determinant of post-critical illness healthcare use, we conducted a population-based evaluation of patients' healthcare use trajectories.

Results

Using discharge databases in a 2.5-million-people region in France, we retrieved, over 3 years, all adult patients admitted in ICU for septic shock or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), intubated at least 5 days and di

SUBMITTER: Jouan Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6842359 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature