Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Critical care unit bed availability and postoperative outcomes: a multinational cohort study
Primary result · Postoperative morbidity at day 7Result — go to the resultOdds ratio 0.91 95% CI 0.57–1.45Authors' conclusion
Postoperative critical care admission is variable and related to bed availability.
Study context
- Population
- Adults undergoing inpatient surgery in 274 hospitals across the UK and Australasia, 2017
- Participants
- 19,491 adults · 248 hospitals
- Comparison
- Postoperative critical care admission vs no admission
- Critical care admissionn = 2,107
- Primary endpoint
- Postoperative morbidity
- Follow-up
- Day 7
Methodological detailsmultinational, instrumental variable analysis
- Multinational
- Instrumental variable analysis
Primary result
Postoperative morbidity at day 7
Odds ratio
0.91
95% CI 0.57–1.45
P = 0.710
Critical care admission vs No critical care admission
OR 0.91 (95% CI 0.57–1.45); P = 0.710
As reported in the abstract
Further findings
| Outcome | OR (95% CI) | P value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical care admission by bed availabilityPer available bed | 1.04 (1.01–1.06) | P = 0.002 | |
| 0.512Odds ratio (log scale) |
- Critical care admission by bed availability — Between-hospital variation in probability of admission (median OR)
- 3.05
Postoperative morbidity, all patients · day 7
- Postoperative morbidity overall
- 2829/19,491 (15%)
Critical care admission by bed availability
- Increasing surgical risk associated with critical care admission
Original publication
Critical care unit bed availability and postoperative outcomes: a multinational cohort study. Anaesthesia. Published 26 September 2024. doi:10.
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