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[A population-based survey of critical care]
U Feldmann1, R Larsen, T Georg
1Institut für Medizinische Biometrie, Epidemiologie und Medizinische Informatik, Universitätskliniken des Saarlandes, Hamburg. imbei@med-imbei.uniklinik-saarland.de
Objectives:
Results of a population-based survey of critical care in a German state are presented. The indication for critical care was derived using the APACHE-II score,which measures the physiologic state of patients, and the TISS-28 score as a measure for expenditure of critical care.
Methods:
During 3 months all adult patients of intensive care units in Saarland, a German state with 1.08 million residents,were included. All kinds of hospitals were involved. Completeness and validity of data are proved.
Results:
The TISS score was registered daily on 13,391 adult patients with 54,503 days, the APACHE score during admission and discharge of intensive care units only. The correlation between the scoring-systems and indication, kind of care (critical care vs. intermediate care), kind of hospital, and ICD-10 diagnoses is analysed in this paper.
Conclusions:
In this study the population-based critical care in a state is analysed the first time. It completes previously published studies,which were performed at the level of hospitals and departments.