• Suleyman Nahit Sendur and Arzu Topeli.
• Department of Internal Medicine, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. Electronic address: suleyman.sendur@hacettepe.edu.tr.
• J Crit Care. 2019 Jun 1; 51: 105-110.

PurposeTo determine whether the adaptation of junior residents, during their first week rotation period within the ICU, has any effect on ICU and hospital mortality rates, in a developing country.Materials And MethodsPatients who were admitted to the ICU were included, with 1207 out of 1547 of the admitted patients being eligible. The effect of age, gender, co-morbidities, the cause of the ICU admission, the presence of hospital-acquired infections, residents rotation week, admission time (weekday vs. weekend), number of patients admitted on the same day (one vs. two or more) and APACHE II score upon the ICU and hospital mortality rates were evaluated.ResultsThe first rotation week of junior residents is an independent risk factor determining hospital mortality (OR (95% CI) = 2.42 (1.23-4.76); p = .010). The effect of the first rotation week on intensive care mortality was not statistically significant (1.92 (0.97-3.84); p = .063). In addition, the presence of malignancy, sepsis-septic shock, hospital-acquired infection and high APACHE II score were found to be other independent determinants of increased hospital mortality.ConclusionThe junior residents first rotation week is an independent risk factor on hospital mortality, in a tertiary medical intensive care unit, within a developing country.Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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