[Influence of social characteristics on the duration of treatment, severity of the disease and social support of patients in a surgical intensive care unit].

CONCLUSION: In addition to the SES, sociodemographic characteristics of the individual patient are associated with the course of treatment in intensive care medicine. The extent of social support by the next of kin depends on intercultural and individual patient characteristics. An increasing size of the town of residence and private health insurance status positively influence intensive care outcomes. In order to evaluate these data, further epidemiological studies in intensive care medicine are necessary. PMID: 29564474 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Der Anaesthesist - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Anaesthesist Source Type: research