Decreases in Mortality on a Large Urban Medical Service by Facilitating Access to Critical Care: An Alternative to Rationing

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 148, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 1403-1405

  Franklin, Cory M ^b   Rackow, Eric C ^a   Mamdani, Bashir ^b   Nightingale, Steven ^b   Burke, Gerald ^b   Weil, Max H ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b Department of Ambulatory and Community Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY CARE UNIT; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MEDICAL SERVICE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALTERNATIVES; CHICAGO; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SELECTION FOR TREATMENT;

CHICAGO; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRITICAL CARE; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MORTALITY; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0023913281     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1988.00380060167029     Document Type: Article

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