Intensivists in U.S. Acute Care Hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the total numbers of privileged and full-time equivalent intensivists in acute care hospitals with intensivists and compare the characteristics of hospitals with and without intensivists.

Design

Retrospective analysis of the American Hospital Association Annual Survey Database (Fiscal Year 2015).

Setting

Two-thousand eight-hundred fourteen acute care hospitals with ICU beds.

Patients

None.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Of the 2,814 acute care hospitals studied, 1,469 (52%) had intensivists and 1,345 (48%) had no intensivists. There were 28,808 privileged and 19,996 full-time equivalent intensivists in the 1,469 hospitals with intensivists. In these hospitals, the median (25-75th percentile) numbers of pr

SUBMITTER: Halpern NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8183575 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature