Mortality and hospital stay, adjusted for severity, as indicators of the effectiveness and efficiency of the care of critical patients;Mortalidad y estancia hospitalaria ajustadas por gravedad como indicadores de efectividad y eficiencia de la atención a pacientes en estado crítico

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 108, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 647-651

  Rué Monné, Montserrat ^a,d   Fíguls, Marta Roqué ^a   Saura, Jaume Mestre ^b   Raventós, Antoni Artigas ^b,c   Cosp, Xavier Bonfill ^a  

^a Serv Epidemiologia Informacion C   (Spain)

^b Servicio de Medicina Intensiva   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Serv Epidemiologia Informacion C   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0031551039     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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