Intensive care unit to unit capacity transfers are associated with increased mortality: an observational cohort study on patient transfers in the Swedish Intensive Care Register.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Transfers from one intensive care unit (ICU) to another ICU are associated with increased length of intensive care and hospital stay. Inter-hospital ICU transfers are carried out for three main reasons: clinical transfers, capacity transfers and repatriations. The aim of the study was to show that different ICU transfers differ in risk-adjusted mortality rate with repatriations having the least risk.

Results

Observational cohort study of adult patients transferred between Swedish ICUs during 3 years (2016-2018) with follow-up ending September 2019. Primary and secondary end-points were survival to 30 days and 180 days after discharge from the first ICU. Data from 75 ICUs in the Swedish Intensive Care Register, a nationwide intensive care register, were used for an

SUBMITTER: Parenmark F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8980179 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature