The patient-related costs of care for sepsis patients in a United Kingdom adult general intensive care unit
| Autor: | Clare L. Hibbert, Sandy Smith, Judith M. Kingsley, David L. Edbrooke, Julie M. Quinn, Nicola M. Bright |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Adolescent Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine law.invention Sepsis Interquartile range law Intensive care medicine Humans Hospital Mortality Longitudinal Studies Hospital Costs APACHE Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over Analysis of Variance Septic shock business.industry Mortality rate Retrospective cohort study Length of Stay Middle Aged medicine.disease Intensive care unit Shock Septic Intensive Care Units England Emergency medicine Population study Female business |
| Zdroj: | Critical care medicine. 27(9) |
| ISSN: | 0090-3493 |
| Popis: | Objective: To determine the patient-related costs of care for critically ill patients with severe sepsis or early septic shock. Design: Retrospective, longitudinal, observational study during a 10-month period. Setting: Adult general intensive care unit (ICU) in a university hospital located in the United Kingdom. Patients : The study population consisted of 213 patients admitted consecutively to the ICU during a 10-month period. Thirty-slx patients were Identified using standard definitions as having developed sepsis and analyzed by group (according to the day on which sepsis was diagnosed): Group 1 patients were septic at admission to ICU (n = 16); group 2 patients were septic on their second day In the ICU (n = 10); and group 3 patients developed sepsis after their second day in the ICU (n = 10). One hundred and seventy-seven ICU patients without sepsis were used as the comparative group (group 4). Interveventions: None. Main Results: Patient-related costs of care, length of ICU stay, and ICU and hospital mortality rates were compiled.The median daily costs of care for patients In groups 1, 2, and 3 were $930.74 (interquartile range $851.59-$1,263.96); $814.47 ($650.89-$1,123.06), and $1,079.39 ($705.02-$1,295.96), respectively ; these were significantly more than the group 4 patient's daily cost of $750.38 ($644.10-$908.55) (p |
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