Validation of a Crisis Standards of Care Model for Prioritization of Limited Resources During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Crisis in an Urban, Safety-Net, Academic Medical Center*
In this study, we sought to retrospectively validate this protocol to cohorts of critically ill patients from our hospital.
DESIGN:
We applied our hospital-adopted guidelines, which defined severe and major chronic conditions as those associated with a greater than 50% likelihood of 1- and 5-year mortality, respectively, to a critically ill patient population. We investigated mortality for the same intervals.
SETTING:
An urban safety-net hospital ICU.
PATIENTS:
All adults hospitalized during April of 2015 and April 2019 identified through a clinical database search.
INTERVENTIONS:
None.
MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:
Of 365 admitted patients, 15.89% had one or more defined chronic life-limiting conditions. These patients had higher 1-year (46.55% vs 13.68%; p
Source: Critical Care Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Clinical investigations Source Type: research
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