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Critical care medicine · Sep 1993
An exploratory analysis of medication utilization in a medical intensive care unit.
To evaluate patterns of medication use in a medical intensive care unit (ICU) and to explore relationships between drug use, patient age, admitting diagnosis, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II) scores, length of stay, and survival. ⋯ Patients admitted to the medical ICU receive multiple medications from a variety of pharmacologic classes. Prolonged length of stay, certain admitting diagnoses, and death are associated with increased medication administration. Age, certain admitting diagnoses, and APACHE II scores are significantly related to survival.