Abstract:
OBJECTIVES:To determine the effect of the introduction of a specialty-specific progressive care unit (PCU) on the intensive care unit (ICU) to which relatively low-acuity patients had previously been admitted. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study. SETTING:The thoracic (noncardiac) surgical ICU of a tertiary referral institution. PATIENTS:Four thousand fifty-three patients admitted to the ICU after thoracic surgery between October 1994 and December 2003. INTERVENTIONS:None. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS:The institutional Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) III database was searched to compare the number of admissions, severity of illness, mortality, and other aspects of care for periods before and after the introduction of the PCU. Patients in the post-PCU group were more severely ill by APACHE criteria. The ICU mortality rates for the periods before and after the introduction of the PCU were 1.14% (32/2,801 patients) and 7.27% (91/1,252 patients), respectively. The performance of the ICU appeared to be worse in the period after the opening of the PCU. The ICU- and hospital-customized standardized mortality ratio increased from 0.68 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.47-0.96) in the pre-PCU group to 1.20 (95% CI, 0.96-1.47) in the post-PCU group and from 0.83 (95% CI, 0.66-1.03) to 1.24 (95% CI, 1.05-1.46). CONCLUSIONS:The introduction of a nonintensivist-directed PCU to care for thoracic surgical patients had a significant impact on the parent ICU. Of concern is that outcome and quality measures appeared to worsen and ICU readmission rate increased.
journal_name
J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesthjournal_title
Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesiaauthors
Keegan MT,Brown DR,Thieke MP,Afessa Bdoi
10.1053/j.jvca.2007.12.015subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-06-01 00:00:00pages
347-53issue
3eissn
1053-0770issn
1532-8422pii
S1053-0770(07)00399-0journal_volume
22pub_type
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journal_title:Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
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journal_title:Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
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更新日期:2011-10-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2008-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2019-07-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2009-08-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2020-07-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2018-12-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1999-08-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2020-10-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2019-06-01 00:00:00