ArticleCritical care medicine2017
Impact of Telemedicine Monitoring of Community ICUs on Interhospital Transfers.
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- Process improvement using telemedicine consultation to prevent unnecessary interfacility transfers for low-severity blunt head trauma.BMJ open quality · 2023Article
- Telemedicine in Intensive Care Units: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Article
- Sepsis as the primary admitting diagnosis of transferred patients who died within 48 hours of arrival at a Central Texas hospital.Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center) · 2019Article
- Impact of weekly case-based tele-education on quality of care in a limited resource medical intensive care unit.Critical care (London, England) · 2019Article
- Additional Telemedicine Rounds as a Successful Performance-Improvement Strategy for Sepsis Management: Observational Multicenter Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2019Article
- Telemedicine Coverage of Intensive Care Units: A Narrative Review.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2018Review
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- Telemedicine/Virtual ICU: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journalReview
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Abstract
objectivesTo study the effects of tele-ICU monitoring on interhospital transfers from community-based ICUs to the quaternary care hospital at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
designThis is a retrospective review of data on interhospital transfers comparing trends prior to tele-ICU implementation to those following implementation.
settingTele-ICU programs are increasingly utilized to fill resource gaps in caring for critically ill patients. How such programs impact population and bed management within a healthcare system are not known. Mayo Clinic serves as quaternary referral care center for hospitals in the region within the Mayo Clinic Health System. In August 2013, we implemented tele-ICU monitoring at six Mayo Clinic Health System hospital ICUs. SUBJECTS: All adult ICU admissions during the study period (preimplementation phase: January 1, 2012, to December 31, 2012; and postimplementation phase: January 1, 2014, to December 31, 2014) in any of the six specified community ICUs were included in the study. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN
resultsInterhospital transfers significantly increased post institution of tele-ICU (p = 0.040) and was attributed primarily to transfer from less specialized ICUs (p = 0.037) as compared with more resource-intensive ICUs (p = 0.88). However, for such patient transfers, there were no significant differences before and after severity of illness scores, ICU mortality, or inhospital mortality.
conclusionIn a regional healthcare system, implementation of a tele-ICU program is associated with an increase in interhospital transfers from less resourced ICUs to the referral center, a trend that is not readily explained by increased severity of illness.
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