Characteristics of Patients Hospitalized in Rural and Urban ICUs From 2010 to 2019
Authors' conclusion
Rural hospitals care for an increasingly complex critically ill patient population with similar organ dysfunction as urban hospitals.
Study context
- Population
- Fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries ≥65 years hospitalized in an ICU in the US, 2010–2019
- Participants
- 12,224,097 ICU admissions
- Exposure
- Rural vs urban ICU admissions
- Ruraln = 1,488,347
- Outcome
- Organ dysfunction (mean organ failures)
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Absolute standardized mean difference
0.096
By group
Rural
0.5
mean · SD 0.8
Urban
0.6
mean · SD 0.9
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Most common diagnoses in rural hospitals
- Cardiac
- 30.3%
- Infectious
- 24.6%
- Respiratory
- 10.9%
Organ dysfunction among rural ICU admissions over time · 2010 to 2019
- Mean organ failures 2010
- 0.4
- Mean organ failures 2019
- 0.7
- p < 0.001
Original publication
Characteristics of Patients Hospitalized in Rural and Urban ICUs From 2010 to 2019. Crit Care Med. Published 26 June 2024. doi:10.
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