Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Delayed Discharge From the Intensive Care Unit Is Associated With Longer Hospital Lengths of Stay
Authors' conclusion
The study authors found that patients who had their discharge from the ICU delayed had an increased hospital LOS but a similar rate of hospital readmission.
Study context
- Population
- Patients ready for intensive care unit (ICU) discharge after recovering from cardiac surgery, cardiovascular ICU of a tertiary care university hospital
- Participants
- 5,777 participants
- Exposure
- Delayed vs same-day ICU discharge
- Delayed dischargen = 1,874
- No delayn = 3,903reference
- Outcome
- Postoperative hospital length of stay (LOS) and hospital readmission
Methodological detailssingle-centre
- Single-centre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Postoperative hospital LOS
Delayed discharge vs No delayIncrease (adjusted, linear regression), days (95% CI)P value
After adjustment
0.72(0.43–1.01)
P < 0.001- Unadjusted
- standardized difference 0.162
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Hospital readmission
standardized difference 0.032
Stepdown unit stay · similar
standardized difference 0.076
Hospital readmission
- After adjustment, delayed discharge not associated with readmission
Original publication
Delayed Discharge From the Intensive Care Unit Is Associated With Longer Hospital Lengths of Stay. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. Published 1 October 2022. doi:10.
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