Intensivists in U.S. Acute Care Hospitals

Objectives: To determine the total numbers of privileged and full-time equivalent intensivists in acute care hospitals with intensivists and compare the characteristics of hospitals with and without intensivists. Design: Retrospective analysis of the American Hospital Association Annual Survey Database (Fiscal Year 2015). Setting: Two-thousand eight-hundred fourteen acute care hospitals with ICU beds. Patients: None. Interventions: None. Measurements and Main Results: Of the 2,814 acute care hospitals studied, 1,469 (52%) had intensivists and 1,345 (48%) had no intensivists. There were 28,808 privileged and 19,996 full-time equivalent intensivists in the 1,469 hospitals with intensivists. In these hospitals, the median (25–75th percentile) numbers of privileged and full-time equivalent intensivists were 11 (5–24) and 7 (2–17), respectively. Compared with hospitals without intensivists, hospitals with privileged intensivists were primarily located in metropolitan areas (91% vs 50%; p

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