ArticlePloS one2022
Long-term outcomes of hospital survivors following an ICU stay: A multi-centre retrospective cohort study.
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- Strategies to Reduce Hospital Length of Stay: Evidence and Challenges.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Review
- Exploring the Landscape of Social and Economic Factors in Critical Illness Survivorship: A Scoping Review.Critical care explorations · 2025Article
- Delirium at the intensive care unit and long-term survival: a retrospective study.BMC neurology · 2025Observational
- Physical and Cognitive Impairments at ICU Discharge are Associated with High Long-Term Mortality in ICU Survivors with Solid Malignancies: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2025Article
- Intensive Care Unit admission and long-term survival in older patients after elective major noncardiac surgery: A secondary analysis.PloS one · 2025Article
- Effect of Inpatient Pharmacist-Led Medication Reconciliations on Medication-Related Interventions in Intensive Care Unit Recovery Centers.Hospital pharmacy · 2024Article
- A Comparison of the Clinical Characteristics of Short-, Mid-, and Long-Term Mortality in Patients Attended by the Emergency Medical Services: An Observational Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Outcomes and factors associated with prolonged stays among patients admitted to adult intensive care unit in a resource-limited setting: a multicenter chart review.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Long-term mortality of Dutch COVID-19 patients admitted to the intensive care medicine: a retrospective analysis from a national quality registry.Critical care science · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe focus of much Intensive Care research has been on short-term survival, which has demonstrated clear improvements over time. Less work has investigated long-term survival, and its correlates. This study describes long-term survival and identifies factors associated with time to death, in patients who initially survived an Intensive Care admission in Victoria, Australia.
methodsWe conducted a retrospective cohort study of adult patients discharged alive from hospital following admission to all Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in the state of Victoria, Australia between July 2007 and June 2018. Using the Victorian Death Registry, we determined survival of patients beyond hospital discharge. Comparisons between age matched cohorts of the general population were made. Cox regression was employed to investigate factors associated with long-term survival.
resultsA total of 130,775 patients from 23 ICUs were included (median follow-up 3.6 years post-discharge). At 1-year post-discharge, survival was 90% compared to the age-matched cohort of 98%. All sub-groups had worse long-term survival than their age-matched general population cohort, apart from elderly patients admitted following cardiac surgery who had better or equal survival. Multiple demographic, socio-economic, diagnostic, acute and chronic illness factors were associated with long-term survival.
conclusionsAustralian patients admitted to ICU who survive to discharge have worse long-term survival than the general population, except for the elderly admitted to ICU following cardiac surgery. These findings may assist during goal-of-care discussions with patients during an ICU admission.
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