[Eleven years of core data set in intensive care medicine : Severity of disease and workload are increasing.]

CONCLUSION: The severity of disease on admission to the ICU, the proportion of patients on ventilation and the workload of therapeutic interventions increased between 2000 and 2010 in German ICUs but the length of stay of patients in the ICU remained unchanged. The SMR decreased until 2005 and increased thereafter to return to the initial values. The overall ICU mortality was low compared to international data. PMID: 25376445 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Der Anaesthesist - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Anaesthesist Source Type: research