New ICU Design and Patient Outcome
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Hospital length of stay (LOS) is a quality metric health systems use as a proxy of efficient hospital management (1). Many strategies to reduce ICU length of stay (LOS) have been implemented, but few studies have evaluated the role of ICU design in reduction of LOS and outcome.
This study was informed by the need to compare ICU performance in terms of length of stay and outcome before the upgrade of the ICU facilities and organizational structure (January 2018 – December 2019) and after upgrade of the ICU facilities (January 2020 – December 2021). Finally we demonstrate the impact of ICU design in reducing costs of ICU patients.
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