作者
Maurizia Capuzzo, Carlo Alberto Volta, Tania Tassinati, Rui Paulo Moreno, Andreas Valentin, Bertrand Guidet, Gaetano Iapichino, Claude Martin, Thomas Perneger, Christophe Combescure, Antoine Poncet, Andrew Rhodes
发表日期
2014/10
期刊
Critical Care
卷号
18
页码范围
1-15
出版商
BioMed Central
简介
Introduction
The aim of the study was to assess whether adults admitted to hospitals with both Intensive Care Units (ICU) and Intermediate Care Units (IMCU) have lower in-hospital mortality than those admitted to ICUs without an IMCU.
Methods
An observational multinational cohort study performed on patients admitted to participating ICUs during a four-week period. IMCU was defined as any physically and administratively independent unit open 24 hours a day, seven days a week providing a level of care lower than an ICU but higher than a ward. Characteristics of hospitals, ICUs and patients admitted to study ICUs were recorded. The main outcome was all-cause in-hospital mortality until hospital discharge (censored at 90 days).
Results
One hundred and sixty-seven ICUs from 17 European countries enrolled 5,834 …
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