Ventilatory care in a selection of Ontario hospitals: Bigger is not necessarily better!

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 946-952

  Keenan, S P ^a   Montgomery, J ^a   Chen, L M ^a   Esmail, R ^a   Inman, K J ^a   Sibbald, W J ^a  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical care; Data collection; Health care survey; Human; Intensive care; Intensive care unit organization and administration; Length of stay; Organizational policy; Questionnaire; Respiration, artificial method

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CANADA; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE ADMINISTRATOR; NURSING; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY CARE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; VENTILATOR;

HEALTH RESOURCES; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; ONTARIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; VENTILATORS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0031697009     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001340050694     Document Type: Article

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