Intensive care unit readmissions in U.S. hospitals: Patient characteristics, risk factors, and outcomes

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-10

  Kramer, Andrew A ^a   Higgins, Thomas L ^b   Zimmerman, Jack E ^c  

^a CERNER CORPORATION   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; Intensive care units; Length of stay; Mortality rate; Patient dis charge; Patient readmission

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; AORTA ANEURYSM; APACHE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE MIX; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY CARE UNIT; CRANIOTOMY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDATION; THORACOTOMY; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84055173649     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31822d751e     Document Type: Article

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