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1 to 1 of 1 Research Studies DisplayedKempker JA, Stearns E, Peterson EN
U.S. adult critical care beds per capita: a 2021 county-level cross-sectional study.
This study used November 2021 hospital data from the Department of Health and Human Services' Protect Public Data Hub to describe the per capita distribution of staffed adult critical care beds across the US. There was a high percentage of hospitals reporting (98.6%). A total of 4,846 adult hospitals accounted for 79,876 adult critical care beds in the US and its’ territories. The authors crudely aggregated the data at the national-level to 0.31 adult critical care beds per 1,000 adults. The median crude per capita density of adult critical care beds per 1,000 adults across U.S. counties was 0.00 per 1,000 adults. Spatially smoothed county-level estimates were obtained using Empirical Bayes and Spatial Empirical Bayes approaches, resulting in an estimated 0.18 adult critical care beds per 1,000 adults. Counties in the upper quartile had higher average adult population counts (mean 159,000 vs 32,000 adults per county) compared to counties in the lower quartile of adult critical care bed density.
AHRQ-funded; HS025240.
Citation: Kempker JA, Stearns E, Peterson EN .
U.S. adult critical care beds per capita: a 2021 county-level cross-sectional study.
Crit Care Explor 2023 Mar;5(3):e0868. doi: 10.1097/cce.0000000000000868.
Keywords: Critical Care, Public Health