Intensive Care Unit Readmissions in a Level I Trauma Center.

Introduction: Intensive care unit (ICU) readmissions are associated with increased morbidity and mortality rates, longer hospitalization, and increased health-care expenditures. This study sought to present a large cohort of trauma patients readmitted to the ICU, characterizing risk factors and providing quality improvement strategies to limit ICU readmission.

Methods: A retrospective cohort analysis was conducted on adult trauma patients admitted to the ICU at a single level I trauma center from 2014 to 2021.

Correlating area deprivation index with initial stage at presentation and with follow up and recurrence within an advanced practice provider-led survivorship clinic.

Introduction: Living in disadvantaged neighborhoods has been shown to result in worse healthcare outcomes. The Area Deprivation Index (ADI) is a metric that ranks neighborhoods by socioeconomic disadvantage utilizing numerous factors including income, education, employment, and housing quality.

Methods: A retrospective review of all patients who underwent surveillance in an APP-led head and neck cancer survivorship clinic from Dec 2016 to Oct 2020 at an academic tertiary care center were included.