Planning patient services for intermediate care units: Insights based on care for intensive care unit low-risk monitor admissions

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1626-1632

  Zimmerman, Jack E ^a,b,c   Wagner, Douglas P ^a,b,c   Sun, Xiaolu ^a,b   Knaus, William A ^a,b,c   Draper, Elizabeth A ^b,c  

^a ICU Research Unit   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c APACHE Medical Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

critical care; facility design and construction; intensive care; intermediate care; monitoring systems; organizational policy; resource allocation; resource utilization; triage; utilization review

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING; NURSING HOME; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

APACHE; HEALTH SERVICES; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING CARE; PROGRESSIVE PATIENT CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0029908318     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199610000-00005     Document Type: Article

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