Long-term mortality of Dutch COVID-19 patients admitted to the intensive care medicine: a retrospective analysis from a national quality registry.

Objective: To describe the 12-month mortality of Dutch COVID-19 intensive care unit patients, the total COVID-19 population and various subgroups on the basis of the number of comorbidities, age, sex, mechanical ventilation, and vasoactive medication use.

Methods: We included all patients admitted with COVID-19 between March 1, 2020, and March 29, 2022, from the Dutch National Intensive Care (NICE) database. The crude 12-month mortality rate is presented via Kaplan-Meier survival curves for each patient subgroup.

[Deployment of the nurse practitioner and physician assistant in The Netherlands].

The Physician Assistant and the Nurse Practitioner have been successfully implemented in the Dutch health care system. The professionals provide good quality care, contribute to reducing the workload of physicians, and in most cases are cost-effective. The changing labor market, the increased demand for care and the way health care is organized will further increase demand.

Advanced Practice Providers as Leaders of a Rapid Response Team: A Prospective Cohort Study.

In view of the shortage of medical staff, the quality and continuity of care may be improved by employing advanced practice providers (APPs). This study aims to assess the quality of these APPs in critical care. In a large teaching hospital, rapid response team (RRT) interventions led by APPs were assessed by independent observers and intensivists and compared to those led by medical residents MRs.

Advanced practice providers versus medical residents as leaders of rapid response teams: A 12-month retrospective analysis.

Purpose: In a time of worldwide physician shortages, the advanced practice providers (APPs) might be a good alternative for physicians as the leaders of a rapid response team. This retrospective analysis aimed to establish whether the performance of APP-led rapid response teams is comparable to the performance of rapid response teams led by a medical resident of the ICU.

Material And Methods: In a retrospective single-center cohort study, the electronic medical record of a tertiary hospital was queried during a 12-months period to identify patients who had been visited by our rapid response team.