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German hospital capacities for prolonged mechanical ventilator weaning in neurorehabilitation – results of a representative survey
A brief survey among members of the German Neurorehabilitation Society aimed to document the hospital capacities (“beds”) for prolonged weaning from a mechanical ventilator for patients with neuro-disabilities that require simultaneous multi-professional neurorehabilitation treatment. Sixty-eight in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7326531/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32835164 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42466-020-00065-1 |
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author | Platz, Thomas Bender, Andreas Dohle, Christian Gorsler, Anna Knecht, Stefan Liepert, Joachim Mokrusch, Thomas Sailer, Michael |
author_facet | Platz, Thomas Bender, Andreas Dohle, Christian Gorsler, Anna Knecht, Stefan Liepert, Joachim Mokrusch, Thomas Sailer, Michael |
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description | A brief survey among members of the German Neurorehabilitation Society aimed to document the hospital capacities (“beds”) for prolonged weaning from a mechanical ventilator for patients with neuro-disabilities that require simultaneous multi-professional neurorehabilitation treatment. Sixty-eight institutions declared to have capacities with a broad distribution across Germany and its federal states. Overall, 1094 “beds” for prolonged weaning (and neurorehabilitation) were reported, 871 together with further information regarding their identification and hence regional location. These units had on average 16.1 beds for prolonged weaning (95% confidence interval 12.6 to 19.6) with a range from 2 to 68 beds per organization. The data indicate substantial capacities for the combined prolonged weaning and neurorehabilitation treatment in Germany. For most “beds” included in this analysis a basic validation was possible. While a reasonable coverage of these specialized service capacities by the survey is likely, the number reported could still be biased by underreporting by non-response. Both the broad variation of number of “beds” for prolonged weaning per unit and their unequal geographical distribution across federal states (per capita rate) warrant a more refined follow-up survey that will provide insights into reasons for the observed pattern of variation for these specialized hospital capacities. |
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spelling | pubmed-73265312020-07-01 German hospital capacities for prolonged mechanical ventilator weaning in neurorehabilitation – results of a representative survey Platz, Thomas Bender, Andreas Dohle, Christian Gorsler, Anna Knecht, Stefan Liepert, Joachim Mokrusch, Thomas Sailer, Michael Neurol Res Pract Letter to the Editor A brief survey among members of the German Neurorehabilitation Society aimed to document the hospital capacities (“beds”) for prolonged weaning from a mechanical ventilator for patients with neuro-disabilities that require simultaneous multi-professional neurorehabilitation treatment. Sixty-eight institutions declared to have capacities with a broad distribution across Germany and its federal states. Overall, 1094 “beds” for prolonged weaning (and neurorehabilitation) were reported, 871 together with further information regarding their identification and hence regional location. These units had on average 16.1 beds for prolonged weaning (95% confidence interval 12.6 to 19.6) with a range from 2 to 68 beds per organization. The data indicate substantial capacities for the combined prolonged weaning and neurorehabilitation treatment in Germany. For most “beds” included in this analysis a basic validation was possible. While a reasonable coverage of these specialized service capacities by the survey is likely, the number reported could still be biased by underreporting by non-response. Both the broad variation of number of “beds” for prolonged weaning per unit and their unequal geographical distribution across federal states (per capita rate) warrant a more refined follow-up survey that will provide insights into reasons for the observed pattern of variation for these specialized hospital capacities. BioMed Central 2020-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7326531/ /pubmed/32835164 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42466-020-00065-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Letter to the Editor Platz, Thomas Bender, Andreas Dohle, Christian Gorsler, Anna Knecht, Stefan Liepert, Joachim Mokrusch, Thomas Sailer, Michael German hospital capacities for prolonged mechanical ventilator weaning in neurorehabilitation – results of a representative survey |
title | German hospital capacities for prolonged mechanical ventilator weaning in neurorehabilitation – results of a representative survey |
title_full | German hospital capacities for prolonged mechanical ventilator weaning in neurorehabilitation – results of a representative survey |
title_fullStr | German hospital capacities for prolonged mechanical ventilator weaning in neurorehabilitation – results of a representative survey |
title_full_unstemmed | German hospital capacities for prolonged mechanical ventilator weaning in neurorehabilitation – results of a representative survey |
title_short | German hospital capacities for prolonged mechanical ventilator weaning in neurorehabilitation – results of a representative survey |
title_sort | german hospital capacities for prolonged mechanical ventilator weaning in neurorehabilitation – results of a representative survey |
topic | Letter to the Editor |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7326531/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32835164 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42466-020-00065-1 |
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