The importance of technology for achieving superior outcomes from intensive care

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 664-669

  Bastos, P G ^a,b   Knaus, W A ^a,b   Zimmerman, J E ^a,b   Magalhaes Jr A ^a,b   Sun, X ^a,b   Wagner, D P ^a,b  

^a Hospital Ipanema   (Brazil)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Intensive care; Organization and administration; Outcome and process assessment (health care); Probability models; Quality of health care; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030055412     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01709743     Document Type: Article

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