The impact of pre‐admission morbidity level on 3‐year mortality after intensive care: a Danish cohort study
- 20 July 2011
- journal article
- intensive care-and-physiology
- Published by Wiley in Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
- Vol. 55 (8), 962-970
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-6576.2011.02480.x
Abstract
Background: Chronic diseases are common among intensive care unit (ICU) patients and may worsen their prognosis. We examined the prevalence and impact of pre‐admission/index morbidity among ICU patients compared with a general population cohort. Methods: Our study encompassed all 28,172 adult patients admitted to ICUs in northern Denmark in 2005–2007 and 281,671 age‐ and sex‐matched individuals from the general population. We used a nationwide hospital registry to obtain a 5‐year history of 19 chronic diseases and computed Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) for each study participant and grouped them into low (CCI=0), moderate (CCI=1–2), and high (CCI=3+) morbidity levels. We computed mortality and mortality rate ratios (MRRs) adjusted for confounders, and compared the mortality between ICU patients and the general population cohort. Results: Low, moderate, and high pre‐admission morbidity levels were present in 51.5%, 34.1%, and 14.4% of ICU patients, respectively. In these groups, 30‐day mortality was 10.8%, 18.4%, and 26.7%, respectively. Three‐year mortality was 21.3%, 43.1%, and 63.2%, respectively. The adjusted 30‐day MRR was 1.30 [95% confidence intervals (CI): 1.21–1.39] and 1.86 (95% CI: 1.71–2.01) for ICU patients with moderate and high morbidity levels, both compared with a low morbidity level. The general population had a lower morbidity level and mortality at all morbidity levels throughout the study period. Interaction between ICU admission and high morbidity level added 5.1% to the mortality during the second and third year of follow‐up. Conclusion: A high pre‐admission morbidity level was frequent among ICU patients and associated with a worsened prognosis. Morbidity had more impact on mortality among ICU patients compared with a general population cohort.Keywords
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