Characteristics and Outcomes for Low-Risk Hospital Admissions Admitted to the ICU: A Multisite Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Prognostication following ICU admission can often be determined based on known risk factors, including demographics and illness severity; however, little is known about outcomes of patients deemed to be "low-risk" at the time of hospital admission who subsequently are admitted to the ICU.

Objectives

The objectives of this study were to determine the characteristics, outcomes, and costs for patients requiring ICU admission despite having lower predicted mortality when they were admitted to the hospital.

Design setting and participants

In this historical cohort study, we used a prospectively maintained ICU registry that included all ICU admissions to The Ottawa Hospital for patients 18 years or older from January 2011 to December 2016. We classified patients

SUBMITTER: Prager RT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8663905 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature