Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Readmission to a surgical intensive care unit: incidence, outcome and risk factors. | Available online http content 1 2 5 R123 Research Readmission to a surgical intensive care unit incidence outcome and risk factors Axel Kaben1 Fabiano Corrêa1 Konrad Reinhart1 Utz Settmacher2 Jan Gummert3 Rolf Kalff4 and Yasser Sakr1 1 Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Friedrich Schiller University Hospital Erlanger Allee 101 Jena 07743 Germany 2Department of Vascular and General Surgery Friedrich Schiller University Hospital Erlanger Allee 101 Jena 07743 Germany 3Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Friedrich Schiller University Hospital Erlanger Allee 101 Jena 07743 Germany 4Department of Neurosurgery Friedrich Schiller University Hospital Erlanger Allee 101 Jena 07743 Germany Corresponding author Yasser Sakr Received 28 Jul 2008 Revisions requested 18 Aug 2008 Revisions received 12 Sep 2008 Accepted 6 Oct 2008 Published 6 Oct 2008 Critical Care 2008 12 R123 doi cc7023 This article is online at http content 12 5 R1 23 2008 Kaben et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction We investigated the incidence of outcome from and possible risk factors for readmission to the surgical intensive care unit ICU at Friedrich Schiller University Hospital Jena Germany. Methods We conducted an analysis of prospectively collected data from all patients admitted to the postoperative ICU between September 2004 and July 2006. Results Of 3169 patients admitted to the ICU during the study period 2852 were discharged to the hospital floor and these patients made up the study group 1828 male mean patient age 62 years . The readmission rate was n 381 314 were readmitted once 39 were readmitted twice and 28 .
