ICU sedation, delirium & recovery
A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Post-ICU Telehealth Care Model (WFIT)
Primary result · Overall healthcare spending on ER visits and hospitalizationsResult — go to the resultIncremental net benefit $1,958.29 U.S. dollars CI -$5,779.56 to $9,696.14Authors' conclusion
This randomized controlled trial of a post-ICU telehealth intervention demonstrated wide variation but no clear incremental net benefit compared with standard care.
Study context
- Population
- ICU patients with sepsis and/or acute respiratory failure, ≤2 hospital admissions in the past year, not admitted from or discharged to hospice, a skilled nursing facility or a long-term acute care hospital
- Participants
- 400 patients
- Comparison
- Post-ICU telehealth care model vs attention control
- Primary endpoint
- Cost-effectiveness of the intervention
Methodological detailssingle-centre
- Single-centre
Primary result
As reported in the abstract
Overall healthcare spending on ER visits and hospitalizations
Incremental net benefit
$1,958.29 U.S. dollars
CI -$5,779.56 to $9,696.14
By group
Attention control
$7,801.10
mean · SD $15,461.03 · U.S. dollars
Intervention
$8,086.50
mean · SD $17,464.87 · U.S. dollars
Further findings
Patient-reported ER visits to outside hospitals (per 100 patients per month)
P = 0.03
Emergency room (ER) visits to own healthcare system
- Same between groups
Readmissions, mortality, quality-of-life scores, overall patient satisfaction
- Similar between groups
Original publication
A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Post-ICU Telehealth Care Model (WFIT). Am J Respir Crit Care Med. Published 1 September 2025. doi:10.
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