PMC:29010 / 845-1855 JSONTXT

{"target":"https://pubannotation.org/docs/sourcedb/PMC/sourceid/29010","sourcedb":"PMC","sourceid":"29010","source_url":"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/29010","text":"Results:\nTwenty Iowa hospitals were evaluated. Data collected on 224 \t\t\t\tpatients demonstrated a mean age of 70 years and a mean ICU admission Acute \t\t\t\tPhysiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score of 22, with an \t\t\t\tassociated 36% mortality. Mean length of ICU stay was 10 days, with 7.7 \t\t\t\tventilated days. Significant differences were found in both institutional and \t\t\t\tpatient variables between rural referral hospitals and rural hospitals with \t\t\t\tmore limited resources. A subgroup of patients with diagnoses associated with \t\t\t\tcomplex ventilation had higher mortality rates than patients without these \t\t\t\tconditions. Patients who developed nosocomial events had longer mean ventilator \t\t\t\tand ICU days than patients without nosocomial events. This study also found ICU \t\t\t\tpractices that frequently fell outside the guidelines recommended by a task \t\t\t\tforce describing minimum standards of care for critically ill patients with \t\t\t\tacute respiratory failure on mechanical ventilation.","divisions":[{"label":"Title","span":{"begin":0,"end":8}}],"tracks":[]}