Why the study?
Does the TISS-28 score accurately quantify resource utilization, costs, and predict outcomes in critically ill ICU patients?
Does the TISS-28 score accurately quantify resource utilization, costs, and predict outcomes in critically ill ICU patients?
The study evaluates the utility of the TISS-28 scoring system for assessing resource utilization and predicting outcomes in ICU patients in Trinidad.
Offers Trinidad-specific TISS-28 data; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change ICU practice.
The study evaluates the utility of therapeutic intervention scoring system (TISS-28) in quantifying the resource utilization, costs and predicting outcome of critically ill patients. Materials and Methods: TISS-28 was prospectively applied to patients consecutively admitted to the intensive care units (ICU) of three public teaching hospitals and two private hospitals in Trinidad on a daily basis for a period of eight weeks. Demographic data, diagnoses on admission, nurse-patient ratio, ICU length of stay and hospital outcomes were recorded. Simpli ed acute physiology score (SAPS)-II was applied for all adult patients. Costs were calculated from data collected from the public hospitals in relation to TISS-28 score.
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