Why the study?
What are the clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients requiring readmission to an intensive care unit?
Population
Adult patients in an 8-bed medical and 16-bed surgical ICU in a 650-bed university teaching hospital during…
Design
Case-control
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These factors were associated with readmission and high mortality; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before guiding practice.
What are the clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients requiring readmission to an intensive care unit?
ICU readmission is associated with significantly higher mortality and longer hospital stays, and is predicted by factors such as increased respiratory rate, lower hematocrit, positive fluid balance, and positive blood cultures at discharge.
Durbin et al. (1993) studied this question.
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