Change in inappropriate critical care over time.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Intensive care interventions that prolong life without achieving meaningful benefit are considered clinically "inappropriate". In 2012, the frequency of perceived-inappropriate critical care was 10.8% at one academic health system; and we aimed to re-evaluate this frequency.

Methods

For 4 months in 2017, we surveyed critical care physicians daily and asked whether each patient was receiving appropriate, probably inappropriate, or inappropriate critical care. Patients were categorized into three groups: 1) patients for whom treatment was never inappropriate, 2) patients with at least one assessment that treatment was probably inappropriate, but no inappropriate treatment assessments, and 3) patients who had at least one assessment of inappropriate treatment.

Result

SUBMITTER: Neville TH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7736139 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature