Critical Care Nursing
 Professor Leanne Aitken
Critically Ill Trauma Patients
Health status and economic outcomes of critically ill trauma patients
AIMS
The initial descriptive component of this research will examine the trajectory of recovery, in terms of health and economic outcomes, during two years post-discharge from hospital. The following hypothesis will then inform the modelling component of this work:
Selected predictors (demography, pre-injury health, socio-economic status, injury characteristics) and moderators (length of stay [LOS], adverse events, psychological status, social support, health service use) have a significant impact on health and economic outcomes over 24 months post hospital discharge in critically injured adults.
While this work will be able to stand alone as an independent piece of research for publication purposes, it will also be used as leverage for NHMRC funding to extend to additional sites to enable assessment of additional site specific factors, e.g. provision of an organised trauma service, ICU liaison nurse service.
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