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. 2016 Jul 15;194(2):198–208. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201511-2234OC

Table 2.

Mean Resource Use per Year for Intensive Care Unit Cohort and Hospital Control Cohort

  No. Alive at Start of Interval Mean Hospital Resource Use during Interval
Mean Hospital Cost Accrued during Interval ($)
Emergency Elective Day Case Total (95% CI) Emergency Elective Day Case Total (95% CI)
ICU cohort                  
 0–1 yr 5,215         6,317 1,880 666 8,863 (8,332–9,393)
  No. of admissions   0.83 0.31 0.52 1.66 (1.57–1.75)        
  Length of stay, d   8.3 2.5 0.5 11.2 (10.6–11.9)        
 1–2 yr 4,651         4,116 1,175 412 5,704 (5,269–6,138)
  No. of admissions   0.60 0.20 0.32 1.11 (1.04–1.18)        
  Length of stay, d   5.4 1.5 0.3 7.2 (6.7–7.8)        
 2–3 yr 4,286         4,104 973 342 5,421 (4,949–5,892)
  No. of admissions   0.57 0.16 0.27 1.00 (0.93–1.07)        
  Length of stay, d   5.4 1.3 0.3 6.9 (6.3–7.5)        
 3–4 yr 3,999         4,078 726 340 5,146 (4,639–5,652)
  No. of admissions   0.53 0.14 0.26 0.93 (0.86–1.00)        
  Length of stay, d   5.3 1.0 0.3 6.6 (5.9–7.2)        
 4–5 yr 3,757         3,593 628 300 4,521 (4,061–4,982)
  No. of admissions   0.48 0.12 0.23 0.84 (0.78–0.90)        
  Length of stay, d   4.7 0.8 0.2 5.8 (5.2–6.4)        
 0–5 yr 5,215         19,077 4,738 1,793 25,608 (24,360–26,856)
  No. of admissions   2.58 0.82 1.39 4.79 (4.57–5.02)        
  Length of stay, d   25.0 6.2 1.4 32.6 (30.9–34.2)        
Hospital control cohort                  
 0–1 yr 5,215         3,662 1,351 381 5,392 (4,969–5,815)
  No. of admissions   0.50 0.26 0.30 1.05 (0.99–1.11)        
  Length of stay, d   4.8 1.8 0.3 6.9 (6.3–7.4)        
 1–2 yr 4,824         2,936 698 272 3,906 (3,534–4,279)
  No. of admissions   0.37 0.15 0.21 0.73 (0.68–0.78)        
  Length of stay, d   3.8 0.9 0.2 5.0 (4.5–5.5)        
 2–3 yr 4,558         2,608 629 235 3,473 (3,098–3,848)
  No. of admissions   0.33 0.13 0.18 0.65 (0.60–0.69)        
  Length of stay, d   3.4 0.8 0.2 4.4 (3.9–4.9)        
 3–4 yr 4,345         2,268 583 255 3,105 (2,759–3,450)
  No. of admissions   0.31 0.11 0.20 0.62 (0.57–0.67)        
  Length of stay, d   3.0 0.8 0.2 3.9 (3.5–4.4)        
 4–5 yr 4,179         2,111 516 221 2,850 (2,517–3,183)
  No. of admissions   0.30 0.10 0.17 0.57 (0.53–0.61)        
  Length of stay, d   2.8 0.7 0.2 3.6 (3.2–4.0)        
 0–5 yr 5,215         12,240 3,445 1,227 16,912 (15,955–17,869)
  No. of admissions   1.63 0.68 0.95 3.26 (3.12–3.41)        
  Length of stay, d   16.0 4.5 1.0 21.5 (20.2–22.7)        

Definition of abbreviations: CI = confidence interval; ICU = intensive care unit.

Mean number of admissions, mean hospital length of stay, and mean cost are calculated per patient alive and under follow-up at the start of each interval. The 95% CIs are shown only for total columns for clarity of presentation. Resource use is presented for matched cohorts (n = 5,215 per cohort); for resource use quantities for full ICU cohort (n = 5,259) see Table E2 in the online supplement.