Is my patient ready for a safe transfer to a lower-intensity care setting? Nursing complexity as an independent predictor of adverse events risk after ICU discharge.

Gianfranco Sanson; Cecilia Marino; Andrea Valenti; Umberto Lucangelo; Giorgio Berlot

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Is my patient ready for a safe transfer to a lower-intensity care setting? Nursing complexity as an independent predictor of adverse events risk after ICU discharge.

April 8, 2020

Sanson G, Marino C, Valenti A, et al. Heart & Lung. 2020;49(4):407-414.

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Prospective observational study examined whether nursing complexity level predicts adverse event risk among patients transferred from the ICU to the discharge ward. In this 13-bed ICU, researchers found that various factors including level of acuity and nursing complexity predated risk of adverse events (AEs); patients who exceeded a predetermined complexity threshold were at 3-times greater risk of AEs.

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