Direct transfer of long-stay ICU patients to a nursing-home rehabilitation unit: focus on functional dependency

Intensive Care Med. 2015 Nov;41(11):2031-2. doi: 10.1007/s00134-015-4029-1. Epub 2015 Aug 26.

Authors

Sonja R Vossenberg-Postma¹, Ytje T Sikkema², Ioana Drogt-Bilaseschi³, Nynke A Bruins-Lange³, Corine M de Jager³, Theo van Maaren¹, Veronica van der Pol¹, E Christiaan Boerma⁴

Affiliations

¹ Elderly Care Medicine, Zorggroep Noorderbreedte, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical Centre Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Intensive Care, Medical Centre Leeuwarden, P.O. Box 888, 8901BR, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Intensive Care, Medical Centre Leeuwarden, P.O. Box 888, 8901BR, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. e.boerma@chello.nl.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Activities of Daily Living
Cognition Disorders
Controlled Before-After Studies
Critical Illness / rehabilitation*
Humans
Intensive Care Units / standards*
Intensive Care Units / statistics & numerical data
Length of Stay
Nursing Homes*
Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / statistics & numerical data
Patient Readmission / statistics & numerical data
Patient Transfer / standards
Patient Transfer / trends*
Prospective Studies
Statistics, Nonparametric