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Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Length-of-Stay (LOS)

CBE ID
0702
Endorsement Status
1.1 New or Maintenance
Previous Endorsement Cycle
Is Under Review
No
1.3 Measure Description

For all eligible patients =18 years old admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), total duration of time spent in the ICU until time of discharge from the ICU; both observed and risk-adjusted LOS reported with the predicted LOS measured using the Intensive Care Outcomes Model - Length-of-Stay (ICOMLOS).

        • 1.14 Numerator

          For all eligible patients admitted to the ICU, the time at discharge from ICU (either death or physical departure from the unit) minus the time of admission (first recorded vital sign on ICU flow sheet). The measure is risk-adjusted, please see S.18.

        • 1.15 Denominator

          Total number of eligible patients who are discharged (including deaths and transfers)

        • Exclusions

          <18 years of age at time of ICU admission, ICU readmission, <4 hours in ICU, primary admission due to trauma, burns, or immediately post-CABG, admitted to exclude myocardial infarction (MI) and subsequently found without MI or any other acute process requiring ICU care, transfers from another acute care hospital.

        • Most Recent Endorsement Activity
          Measure Retired and Endorsement Removed Pulmonary and Critical Care Project 2015-2016
          Initial Endorsement
          Last Updated
          Removal Date
        • Steward
          Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
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