After critical illness, long-term acute care hospitalization common, increasing
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 18:31
in Health & Medicine
From 1997 to 2006, the number of long-term acute care hospitals doubled, the number of Medicare patients who were transferred to a long-term acute care hospital after a critical illness tripled, and the 1 year survival for these patients was poor, according to a study in the June 9 issue of JAMA.