Impact on Quality of Patient Care and Procedure Use in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) Following Reorganisation

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 309-313

  Tai, D Y H ^a,d   Goh, S K ^b   Eng, P C T ^c   Wang, Y T ^d  

^a Department of Pediatric Subspecialties   (Singapore)

^b Department of General Medicine ^*  (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^d TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

APACHE II scores; Invasive monitoring; Length of stay; Mortality; Semi closed ICU

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APACHE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGAPORE; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; APACHE; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGAPORE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032061994     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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