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SUBMITTER: Oh TK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9819529 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oh Tak-Kyu TK Kim Hyeong-Geun HG Song In-Ae IA
International journal of environmental research and public health 20221221 1
We aimed to investigate the trends of intensive care unit (ICU) admissions in South Korea from 2010 to 2019. We included all adult patients (≥20 years old) who were admitted to the ICU during hospitalization from 2010 to 2019 in South Korea. There were 3,517,423 ICU admissions of 2,461,848 adult patients. Of the ICU admission cases, 66.8% (2,347,976/3,517,423) were surgery-associated admissions, and the rate of in-hospital mortality after ICU admission was 12.0% (422,155 patients). The most comm ...[more]