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Complications and in-hospital mortality in trauma patients treated in intensive care units in the United States, 2013

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Title
Complications and in-hospital mortality in trauma patients treated in intensive care units in the United States, 2013
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Injury Epidemiology, August 2016
DOI 10.1186/s40621-016-0084-5
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Meghan Prin, Guohua Li

Abstract

Traumatic injury is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, but epidemiologic data about trauma patients who require intensive care unit (ICU) admission are scant. This study aimed to describe the annual incidence of ICU admission for adult trauma patients, including an assessment of risk factors for hospital complications and mortality in this population. This was a retrospective study of adults hospitalized at Level 1 and Level 2 trauma centers after trauma and recorded in the National Trauma Data Bank in 2013. Multiple logistic regression analyses were performed to determine predictors of hospital complications and hospital mortality for those who required ICU admission. There were an estimated total of 1.03 million ICU admissions for trauma at Level 1 and Level 2 trauma centers in the United States in 2013, yielding an annual incidence of 3.3 per 1000 population. The annual incidence was highest in men (4.6 versus 1.9 per 100,000 for women), those aged 80 years or older (7.8 versus 3.6-4.3 per 100,000 in other age groups), and residents in the Western US Census region (3.9 versus 2.7 to 3.6 per 100,000 in other regions). The most common complications in patients admitted to the ICU were pneumonia (10.9 %), urinary tract infection (4.7 %), and acute respiratory distress syndrome (4.4 %). Hospital mortality was significantly higher for ICU patients who developed one or more complications (16.9 % versus 10.7 % for those who did not develop any complications, p < 0.001). Admission to the ICU after traumatic injury is common, and almost a quarter of these patients experience hospital complications. Hospital complications are associated with significantly increased risk of mortality.

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Unknown 91 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 13 14%
Student > Postgraduate 12 13%
Student > Master 12 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 9%
Researcher 8 9%
Other 19 21%
Unknown 19 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 45 49%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 9%
Engineering 2 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 1%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 1%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 28 31%
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