Abstract:
OBJECTIVES:With the exception of a few single-center descriptive reports, data on critical care organizations are relatively sparse. The objectives of our study were to determine the structure, governance, and experience to date of established critical care organizations in North American academic medical centers. DESIGN:A 46-item survey questionnaire was electronically distributed using Survey Monkey to the leadership of 27 identified critical care organizations in the United States and Canada between September 2014 and February 2015. A critical care organization had to be headed by a physician and have primary governance over the majority, if not all, of the ICUs in the medical center. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:We received 24 responses (89%). The majority of the critical care organizations (83%) were called departments, centers, systems, or operations committees. Approximately two thirds of respondents were from larger (> 500 beds) urban institutions, and nearly 80% were primary university medical centers. On average, there were six ICUs per academic medical center with a mean of four ICUs under critical care organization governance. In these ICUs, intensivists were present in-house 24/7 in 49%; advanced practice providers in 63%; hospitalists in 21%; and telemedicine coverage in 14%. Nearly 60% of respondents indicated that they had a separate hospital budget to support data management and reporting, oversight of their ICUs, and rapid response teams. The transition from the traditional model of ICUs within departmentally controlled services or divisions to a critical care organization was described as gradual in 50% and complete in only 25%. Nearly 90% indicated that their critical care organization governance structure was either moderately or highly effective; a similar number suggested that their critical care organizations were evolving with increasing domain and financial control of the ICUs at their respective institutions. CONCLUSIONS:Our survey of the very few critical care organizations in North American academic medical centers showed that the governance models of critical care organizations vary and continue to evolve. Additional studies are warranted to improve our understanding of the factors that can foster the growth of critical care organizations and how they can be effective.
journal_name
Crit Care Medjournal_title
Critical care medicineauthors
Pastores SM,Halpern NA,Oropello JM,Kostelecky N,Kvetan Vdoi
10.1097/CCM.0000000000001200subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2015-10-01 00:00:00pages
2239-44issue
10eissn
0090-3493issn
1530-0293journal_volume
43pub_type
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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doi:10.1097/00003246-198409000-00021
更新日期:1984-09-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
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更新日期:2009-06-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2008-04-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2010-07-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2000-04-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1997-07-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2019-03-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1996-07-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期:2009-03-01 00:00:00