Nighttime physician staffing in icu

Reference no: EM131797509

Nighttime Physician Staffing in ICU (Intensive Care Unit)

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A rate ratio of 1 means there is no difference in rates, and a confidence interval for rate ratios that captures 1 means there is no significant difference in rates. (An intensivist is a doctor who specializes in intensive care.)

We conducted a 1-year randomized trial in an academic medical ICU of the effects of nighttime staffing with in-hospital intensivists (intervention) as compared with nighttime coverage by daytime intensivists who were available for consultation by telephone (control).

We randomly assigned blocks of 7 consecutive nights to the intervention or the control strategy. The primary outcome was patients' length of stay in the ICU.

Secondary outcomes were patients' length of stay in the hospital, ICU and in-hospital mortality, discharge disposition, and rates of readmission to the ICU. A total of 1598 patients were included in the analyses. . . . Patients who were admitted on intervention days were exposed to nighttime intensivists on more nights than were patients admitted on control days.

Nonetheless, intensivist staffing on the night of admission did not have a significant effect on the length of stay in the ICU (rate ratio for the time to ICU discharge, 0.98; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.88 to 1.09; P = 0.72), on ICU mortality (relative risk, 1.07; 95% CI, 0.90 to 1.28), or on any other end point.

Reference no: EM131797509

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