Associations Between Socioeconomic Status, Patient Risk, and Short-Term Intensive Care Outcomes
OBJECTIVES:
To investigate the association of socioeconomic status as measured by the average socioeconomic status of the area where a person resides on short-term mortality in adults admitted to an ICU in Queensland, Australia.
DESIGN:
Secondary data analysis using de-identified data from the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Centre for Outcome and Resource Evaluation linked to the publicly available area-level Index of Relative Socioeconomic Advantage and Disadvantage from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
SETTING:
Adult ICUs from 35 hospitals in Queensland, Australia, from 2006 to 2015.
PATIENTS:
A total of 218,462 patient admissions.
INTERVENTIONS:
None.
MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:
The outcome measure was inhospital mortality. The main study variable was decile of Index of Relative Socioeconomic Advantage and Disadvantage. The overall crude inhospital mortality was 7.8%; 9% in the most disadvantaged decile and 6.9% in the most advantaged decile (p
Source: Critical Care Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Online Clinical Investigations Source Type: research
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