Twelve Month outcome analysis of a South African Intensive Care Unit.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Piercy, Jenna | |
| dc.contributor.author | Erwee, Daniel | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-18T13:40:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-04-18T13:40:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2024-04-18T13:37:25Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Abstract Background: The description of outcomes after admission to Critical Care Units in Africa is sparse, reporting mortality rates between 23.6% and 53.6%. South African data, thus far, show in-ICU mortality rates between 9% and 19.7%. To our knowledge, no evaluation of ICU outcomes has ever been performed on a population group in the Western Cape Province. Objectives: To describe patients admitted to an 8-bed ICU unit over one calendar year with regards to demographics and outcomes situated in Groote Schuur Hospital with regard to inICU and 1-year mortality rates. Methods: This is a retrospective descriptive review of adult patients (>18 years old) from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019. Data were collected on age, sex, primary admission diagnosis, length of stay and mortality. Results: A total of 338 patients were included; 61.2% (n=207) with a primary medical diagnosis and 38.2% (n=129) with a non-medical diagnosis. Trauma accounted for 13.6% of all admissions. The burden of known HIV infection as a comorbidity was 16.9% (n=57). The overall in-ICU mortality rate was 25.7% (n=87), and the one-year mortality rate was 18.0% (n=25), but with a significant loss to follow-up of 33.1%. Conclusion: The overall in-ICU mortality was 25.7%. A large proportion of patients admitted had a trauma diagnosis, despite it historically accepting mostly medical and complicated obstetric patients. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Erwee, D. (2023). <i>Twelve Month outcome analysis of a South African Intensive Care Unit</i>. (). ,Faculty of Health Sciences ,Department of Medicine. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/39427 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Erwee, Daniel. <i>"Twelve Month outcome analysis of a South African Intensive Care Unit."</i> ., ,Faculty of Health Sciences ,Department of Medicine, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/39427 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Erwee, D. 2023. Twelve Month outcome analysis of a South African Intensive Care Unit. . ,Faculty of Health Sciences ,Department of Medicine. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/39427 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Erwee, Daniel AB - Abstract Background: The description of outcomes after admission to Critical Care Units in Africa is sparse, reporting mortality rates between 23.6% and 53.6%. South African data, thus far, show in-ICU mortality rates between 9% and 19.7%. To our knowledge, no evaluation of ICU outcomes has ever been performed on a population group in the Western Cape Province. Objectives: To describe patients admitted to an 8-bed ICU unit over one calendar year with regards to demographics and outcomes situated in Groote Schuur Hospital with regard to inICU and 1-year mortality rates. Methods: This is a retrospective descriptive review of adult patients (>18 years old) from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019. Data were collected on age, sex, primary admission diagnosis, length of stay and mortality. Results: A total of 338 patients were included; 61.2% (n=207) with a primary medical diagnosis and 38.2% (n=129) with a non-medical diagnosis. Trauma accounted for 13.6% of all admissions. The burden of known HIV infection as a comorbidity was 16.9% (n=57). The overall in-ICU mortality rate was 25.7% (n=87), and the one-year mortality rate was 18.0% (n=25), but with a significant loss to follow-up of 33.1%. Conclusion: The overall in-ICU mortality was 25.7%. A large proportion of patients admitted had a trauma diagnosis, despite it historically accepting mostly medical and complicated obstetric patients. DA - 2023 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Medicine LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2023 T1 - Twelve Month outcome analysis of a South African Intensive Care Unit TI - Twelve Month outcome analysis of a South African Intensive Care Unit UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/39427 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/39427 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Erwee D. Twelve Month outcome analysis of a South African Intensive Care Unit. []. ,Faculty of Health Sciences ,Department of Medicine, 2023 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/39427 | en_ZA |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Medicine | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences | |
| dc.subject | Medicine | |
| dc.title | Twelve Month outcome analysis of a South African Intensive Care Unit. | |
| dc.type | Thesis / Dissertation | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | MMed |