Is the unadjusted ICU mortality a good indicator of quality of ICU care?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy-Centre for Artificial Extracorporeal Kidney and Liver Support, The Dr Wł. Biegański Regional Specialist Hospital, Kniaziewicza 1/5, 91-347, Łódź, Poland. mariuszpiechota@poczta.onet.pl.
² Departments of Outcomes Research and General Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA.
³ Department of Insurance, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland.
⁴ Chair and Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland.
⁵ Department of Orthopaedics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁶ Hospital de São José, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central, Lisbon, Portugal.

Comment

Mariusz Piechota et al. Intensive Care Med. 2018 Jan.

. 2018 Jan;44(1):127-128.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-017-4903-0. Epub 2017 Aug 25.

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy-Centre for Artificial Extracorporeal Kidney and Liver Support, The Dr Wł. Biegański Regional Specialist Hospital, Kniaziewicza 1/5, 91-347, Łódź, Poland. mariuszpiechota@poczta.onet.pl.
² Departments of Outcomes Research and General Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA.
³ Department of Insurance, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland.
⁴ Chair and Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland.
⁵ Department of Orthopaedics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁶ Hospital de São José, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central, Lisbon, Portugal.

No abstract available

Comment on

Mortality rate is higher in Polish intensive care units than in other European countries.
Weigl W, Adamski J, Goryński P, Kański A, Hultström M. Weigl W, et al. Intensive Care Med. 2017 Sep;43(9):1430-1432. doi: 10.1007/s00134-017-4804-2. Epub 2017 May 8. Intensive Care Med. 2017. PMID: 28484784 Review. No abstract available.