PMID: 9434923Jan 22, 1998Paper

Intensive care 1980-1995: change in patient characteristics, nursing workload and outcome

Intensive Care Medicine
S M Jakob, H U Rothen

Abstract

To assess temporal changes in patient characteristics, nursing workload and outcome of the patients and to compare the actual amount of available nursing staff with the estimated needs in a medical-surgical ICU. Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data. A medical-surgical adult intensive care unit (ICU) in a Swiss university hospital. Data of all patients staying in the ICU between January 1980 and December 1995 were included. None. The estimated number of nurses needed was defined according to the Swiss Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SGI) grading system: category I = one nurse/patient/shift (= 8 h), category II = one nurse/two patients/shift, category III = one nurse/three patients/shift. An intervention score (IS) was obtained, based on a number of specific activities in the ICU. There was a total of 35,327 patients (32% medical and 68% postoperative/trauma patients). Over time, the number of patients per year increased (1980/1995: 1,825/2,305, p < 0.001) and the length of ICU stay (LOS) decreased (4.1/3.8 days, p < 0.013). There was an increase in the number of patients aged > 70 years (19%/28%, p < 0.001), and a decrease in the number of patients < 60 years (58%/41%, p < 0.001). During the same time perio...Continue Reading

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