Long-Term Outcome from Intensive Care. A One Year Follow-Up of Acute Admissions at Hawke’s Bay Hospital

Method: All acute adult admissions presenting to ICU/HDU between 1 Jan 2001 and 31 Dec 2001 were studied. Admission demographic and physiological data was collected. From a review of the hospital records, NZ death registry, and the ICU database of published obituary notices, dates of death were identifi ed. After the fi rst anniversary of their initial ICU admission, discharged patients in whom death had not been confi rmed, were contacted. Patients surviving ICU were surveyed to determine their independence. The age and gender adjusted annual survival for the general population was compared to observed survival following ICU/ HDU admission.