Respiratory failure & ventilation
Management and outcomes of COVID-19 patients admitted in a newly created intensive care units (ICU) and an expert ICU, a retrospective observational study
Authors' conclusion
In COVID-19 patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, hospitalization in a new ICU was not associated with mortality at day 180.
Study context
- Population
- Consecutive adults with COVID-19-related acute hypoxemic respiratory failure admitted after centralized regional management by a crisis cell162 and 157 analysed
- Participants
- 176 vs 165
- Exposure
- New-ICU vs Expert-ICU
- New-ICUn = 176
- Expert-ICUn = 165reference
- Outcome
- 180-day mortality
- Follow-up
- 180 days
Methodological detailsmulticentre, propensity-score matched, restricted cubic spline, Staffed by 3 (Expert-ICU) and 2 (New-ICU) physicians by day, one at night
- Multicentre
- Propensity-score matched
- Restricted cubic spline
- Staffed by 3 (Expert-ICU) and 2 (New-ICU) physicians by day, one at night
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
P = 0.7
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
180-day mortality, propensity-score matched (123 pairs)
- OR [CI]
- 1.00 [0.89; 1.12]
- P
- P = 1
- No significant difference in mortality after propensity score matching (32% vs. 32%)
- Matched cohort
Adjusted predicted mortality over time
- Decreased over time in both Expert-ICU and New-ICU
- P < 0.01
Original publication
Management and outcomes of COVID-19 patients admitted in a newly created ICU and an expert ICU, a retrospective observational study. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. Published 7 November 2023. doi:10.
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