Patient-related factors associated with hospital discharge to a care facility after critical illness.
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2011
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 378–386
- Identifiers
- DOI: 10.4037/ajcc2011827
- PMID: 21885459
- Source
- Medline
- License
- Unknown
Abstract
The model, which did not include baseline function or social variables, provided good discrimination between patients discharged to a care facility after critical illness and patients discharged to home. These results suggest that future research should focus on the debilitating effects of respiratory failure and on conditions with cognitive and neuromuscular sequelae.