Effect of length of stay in intensive care unit on hospital and long-term mortality of critically ill adult patients
Critical illness leading to prolonged length of stay (LOS) in an intensive care unit (ICU) is associated with significant mortality and resource utilization. This study assessed the independent effect of ICU LOS on in-hospital and long-term mortality after hospital discharge. Most hospital deaths oc...
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| author | Williams, Teresa Ho, K. Dobb, G. Finn, Judith Knuiman, M. Webb, S. |
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| description | Critical illness leading to prolonged length of stay (LOS) in an intensive care unit (ICU) is associated with significant mortality and resource utilization. This study assessed the independent effect of ICU LOS on in-hospital and long-term mortality after hospital discharge. Most hospital deaths occurred within the first few days of ICU admission. Increasing LOS in ICU was not associated with an increased risk of in-hospital mortality after adjusting for other covariates, but was associated with an increased risk of long-term mortality after hospital discharge. The variability on the long-term mortality effect associated with ICU LOS (2.3%) appeared to reach a plateau after the first 20 days in ICU and was not as important as age (35.8%), co-morbidities (18.6%), diagnosis (10.9%), and APS (3.6%) |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-373042017-02-28T01:46:05Z Effect of length of stay in intensive care unit on hospital and long-term mortality of critically ill adult patients Williams, Teresa Ho, K. Dobb, G. Finn, Judith Knuiman, M. Webb, S. mortality length of stay survival costs Critical illness leading to prolonged length of stay (LOS) in an intensive care unit (ICU) is associated with significant mortality and resource utilization. This study assessed the independent effect of ICU LOS on in-hospital and long-term mortality after hospital discharge. Most hospital deaths occurred within the first few days of ICU admission. Increasing LOS in ICU was not associated with an increased risk of in-hospital mortality after adjusting for other covariates, but was associated with an increased risk of long-term mortality after hospital discharge. The variability on the long-term mortality effect associated with ICU LOS (2.3%) appeared to reach a plateau after the first 20 days in ICU and was not as important as age (35.8%), co-morbidities (18.6%), diagnosis (10.9%), and APS (3.6%) 2010 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37304 Oxford University Press restricted |
| spellingShingle | mortality length of stay survival costs Williams, Teresa Ho, K. Dobb, G. Finn, Judith Knuiman, M. Webb, S. Effect of length of stay in intensive care unit on hospital and long-term mortality of critically ill adult patients |
| title | Effect of length of stay in intensive care unit on hospital and long-term mortality of critically ill adult patients |
| title_full | Effect of length of stay in intensive care unit on hospital and long-term mortality of critically ill adult patients |
| title_fullStr | Effect of length of stay in intensive care unit on hospital and long-term mortality of critically ill adult patients |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effect of length of stay in intensive care unit on hospital and long-term mortality of critically ill adult patients |
| title_short | Effect of length of stay in intensive care unit on hospital and long-term mortality of critically ill adult patients |
| title_sort | effect of length of stay in intensive care unit on hospital and long-term mortality of critically ill adult patients |
| topic | mortality length of stay survival costs |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37304 |