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Sai Kumar^{* *}Correspondence: Sai Kumar, Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Tel: 9562147843, Email:

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Patients who receive intensive care services are altogether different in the United States than in the United Kingdom, as indicated by another review that looked at affirmation and mortality insights from ICUs in each country. The investigation discovered that U.K. patients are much sicker upon ICU admission, while U.S. patients are bound to require proceeding with care after discharge and are regularly shifted to skilled care facilities rather than home.

The U.S. has around seven-fold number of ICU beds accessible per capita than the U.K. Individuals have to take a look at the two since they address extremes of ICU accessibility in developed countries. They have to take a look at the impact of that different accessibility of care to understand what effect that has on the delivery of critical care.

A few researchers inspected information obtained from clinical records of voluntary participation of ICUs by trained data collectors, according to exact standards and definitions. The analysts combined the datasets and utilized factors that were confirmed to be characterized much the same way in the two countries.

They investigated all clinical admissions to ICUs from 2002 to 2004, excluding surgical admissions, patients younger than 16 years, and re-admissions to the ICU during a similar medical clinic or hospital stay.

The researchers then calculated the relative degree of illness of patients, length of stay, and hospital mortality and discharge status. They found that overall patient age distribution was remarkably similar between the two countries, although the U.S. had proportionally more admissions over the age of 85 (7.8 percent vs 3.2 percent.)

However, the degree of illness of the patients prior to admission was strikingly different. Patients admitted to the ICU in the U.K. were sicker patients who had been in the hospital longer. Also, many more of the patients admitted in the U.K. were mechanically ventilated.

In contrast, U.S. patients were more likely to be admitted to the ICU straight from the emergency room compared to U.K. patients, indicating that fewer ICU beds in the U.K. may necessitate patients spending more time in the general wards than in the U.S.

Researchers found that hospital mortality for ICU patients was substantially higher in the U.K. than in the U.S., even after accounting for severity of illness, probably because of a combination of many unmeasured differences in both patients and healthcare systems. However, when they compared subgroups of similarly ill patients, those who were admitted directly from the emergency room and who had been mechanically ventilated in the first 24 hours after admission; the mortality rates were similar.

These findings highlight the importance of comparing 'like with like', and how hard that can be when looking at heterogeneous patients cared for in different healthcare systems.

Comparing hospital mortality between the countries was also confounded by the trend for U.S. ICUs to discharge patients to "skilled care facilities" rather than directly home, as was the case in the U.K.

The U.S. and, the U.K. have totally different discharge patterns, and the pattern in the U.S. has been to shorten clinic/hospital length of stay and discharge individuals prior to different types of facilities. At the point, when researchers investigate medical clinic length-of-stay data, the U.S. is exceptionally proficient, yet a considerable lot of these patients are really going to a skilled care facility where the mortality is much higher than among the people who return home. The impact is that for studies of ICU patients, there is a fair amount of mortality that occurs after intensive care that is outside of the medical clinic. This training makes it difficult to compare U.S. hospital mortality to other countries that tend to keep individuals in the medical clinic/hospital until they either die or to return home.

In spite of the difficulties in making direct comparisons between the countries, the study provides valuable information regarding the impact of ICU resources on admission practices and demonstrates some large differences in healthcare delivery. The differences in the types of patients admitted to the ICU, and the patterns of hospital care for these critically ill patients really are enormous.In future, there is a hope that researchers make more direct comparisons between groups of similar patients.