New Study Adds to Consensus on ICU Effectiveness

Advanced ICU Care
May 21, 2011

Research continues to show that tele-ICUs save lives and money. A study from University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that rates of preventable complications declined from 13 to 1.6 per patient stay, and overall length of stay in the hospital decreased by 3.5 days...

...The new findings represent a growing consensus among experts that tele-ICUs save lives. A study released Dec. 1 by the New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI) and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative also found that patient mortality decreases significantly - as much as 36 percent - when hospitals adopt tele-ICU technology.

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