Audit of 2431 Admissions to the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Singapore General Hospital

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 314-317

  Lim, B L ^a,b   Chan, Y W ^b  

^a Surgical Intensive Care Unit   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

APACHE II; ICU outcome; Resource utilisation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; SINGAPORE; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; APACHE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SINGAPORE; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032062452     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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