Abstract

Intensive care is one of the most resource-intensive forms of medical care due to severely ill patients [[1]].

Highlights

  • Intensive care is one of the most resource-intensive forms of medical care due to severely ill patients [1]

  • Preliminary result shows an increase in critical care admissions from 7331 in 2011 to 7653 in the year 2014 throughout six university hospitals in Sweden

  • The result showed that 83% (5 out of 6) of the hospitals had a specialized nurse/patient ratio of 0.5-0.75 and one hospital had a 1:1 ratio

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Summary

Objectives

To measure optimal medical and nursing-related result usually used indicators is mortality, complications in intensive care, quality of life and functional status after intensive care. Among these indicators, only the frequency of VAP and multi-resistant bacteria that coincides with the Institute of Medicine (2001) scientifically approved nursing indicators for person-centered care. Only the frequency of VAP and multi-resistant bacteria that coincides with the Institute of Medicine (2001) scientifically approved nursing indicators for person-centered care None of these indicators is collected in the Swedish registry(SIR) time on noninvasive and invasive ventilator treatment is collected to describe how indicators are a useful measure of Swedish intensive care from the nursing perspective is measured

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