Advance Identification of Patients With Chronic Conditions and Acute Respiratory Failure at Greatest Risk for High-Intensity, Costly Care

Patients with underlying chronic illness requiring mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory failure are at risk for poor outcomes and high costs. Identify characteristics at time of intensive care unit (ICU) admission that identify patients at highest risk for high-intensity, costly care. Retros...

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Published in:	Journal of pain and symptom management Vol. 63; no. 4; pp. 618 - 626
Main Authors:	Khandelwal, Nita, May, Peter, Downey, Lois M., Engelberg, Ruth A., Curtis, J. Randall
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Elsevier Inc 01.04.2022 Elsevier Limited
Subjects:	acute respiratory failure Aged Anesthesia chronic conditions Chronic Disease Chronic illnesses Cohort analysis Costs Critical care Dementia Health care expenditures Health care industry Health services high intensity care Hospitalization Hospitals Humans Indexes Intensive care Intensive Care Units Kidney diseases Mechanical ventilation Pain Medicine Palliative care Patients Respiration, Artificial Respiratory Distress Syndrome - therapy Respiratory failure Respiratory Insufficiency - therapy Retrospective Studies Risk Ventilation Ventilators Weight loss Critical care acute respiratory failure high intensity care chronic conditions
ISSN:	0885-3924, 1873-6513, 1873-6513
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