Intensive care 1980-1995: Change in patient characteristics, nursing workload and outcome

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1165-1170

  Jakob, S M ^a   Rothen, H U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ICU management; ICU mortality; Intervention scoring system; Nursing care; Nursing staff; Nursing workload; Personnel management; Severity of illness index; Survival rate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NURSING; NURSING STAFF; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL RATE; SWITZERLAND; TIME; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AGED; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0030720020     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001340050474     Document Type: Article

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