Assessing the efficiency of the admission process to a critical care unit: Does the literature allow the use of benchmarking?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 574-580

  Keenan, S P ^a,b   Doig, G S ^a   Martin, C M ^a   Inman, K J ^a   Sibbald, W J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Canadian Lung Association   (Canada)

^c LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Admission; Benchmarking; Critical care; Intensive Care; Review; Triage

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PHYSICIAN; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; FEMALE; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVIEW LITERATURE; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRIAGE;

EID: 0030913391     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001340050375     Document Type: Article

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