Hospital mortality of adults admitted to intensive care units in hospitals with and without intermediate care units: a multicentre european cohort study

Abstract

The role of Intermediate Care Units remains inadequately understood and studied. This is an observational multinational cohort study, providing the evidence of the positive effect of having any physically and administratively independent intermediate care unit in the hospital on the mortality of adults admitted to Intensive care unit

Keywords

• intensive care
• intermediate intensive care
• health care organization
• outcome