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    Long term outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians after hospital intensive care

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    Mitchell, WG; Deane, A; Brown, A; Bihari, S; Wong, H; Ramadoss, R; Finnis, M
    Date
    2020-07-01
    Source Title
    Medical Journal of Australia
    Publisher
    WILEY
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Deane, Adam
    Affiliation
    Medicine and Radiology
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    Mitchell, W. G., Deane, A., Brown, A., Bihari, S., Wong, H., Ramadoss, R. & Finnis, M. (2020). Long term outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians after hospital intensive care. MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA, 213 (1), pp.16-21. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50649.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/257938
    DOI
    10.5694/mja2.50649
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    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.5694/mja2.50649
    Abstract
    OBJECTIVES: To assess long term outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australians admitted non-electively to intensive care units (ICUs). DESIGN: Data linkage cohort study; analysis of ICU patient data (Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Adult Patient Database), prospectively collected during 2007-2016. SETTING: All four university-affiliated level 3 ICUs in South Australia. MAIN OUTCOMES: Mortality (in-hospital, and 12 months and 8 years after admission to ICU), by Indigenous status. RESULTS: 2035 of 39 784 non-elective index ICU admissions (5.1%) were of Indigenous Australians, including 1461 of 37 661 patients with South Australian residential postcodes. The median age of Indigenous patients (45 years; IQR, 34-57 years) was lower than for non-Indigenous ICU patients (64 years; IQR, 47-76 years). For patients with South Australian postcodes, unadjusted mortality at discharge and 12 months and 8 years after admission was lower for Indigenous patients; after adjusting for age, sex, diabetes, severity of illness, and diagnostic group, mortality was similar for both groups at discharge (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 0.95; 95% CI, 0.81-1.10), but greater for Indigenous patients at 12 months (aOR, 1.14; 95% CI, 1.03-1.26) and 8 years (adjusted hazard ratio, 1.23; 95% CI, 1.13-1.35). The number of potential years of life lost was greater for Indigenous patients (median, 24.0; IQR, 15.8-31.8 v 12.5; IQR, 0-22.3), but, referenced to respective population life expectancies, relative survival at 8 years was similar (proportions: Indigenous, 0.78; 95% CI, 0.75-0.80; non-Indigenous, 0.77; 95% CI, 0.76-0.78). CONCLUSIONS: Adjusted long term mortality and median number of potential life years lost are higher for Indigenous than non-Indigenous patients after intensive care in hospital. These differences reflect underlying population survival patterns rather than the effects of ICU admission.

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