Assessing the impact of patient characteristics and process performance on rural intensive care unit hospital mortality rates

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 773-778

  Jiang, H Joanna ^a,e   Fielselmann, John F ^b   Hendryx, Michael S ^c   Bock, M Jeanne ^d  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e Healthcare Association of New York State   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II; Critical care; Hospital mortality; Intensive care units; Outcome and process assessment; Outcome prediction; Severity of Illness index; Ventilators

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING; NUTRITION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STRESS ULCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTILATOR; WEANING;

AGED; APACHE; CRITICAL CARE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; IOWA; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030995803     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199705000-00011     Document Type: Article

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